The digital fluorescent hum of the design studio was the only thing keeping Elias awake. It was 3:00 AM, and his workstation was cluttered with cold espresso shots and crumpled blueprints. On his screen, a massive land development project for the "Green Valley Subdivision" sat frozen.
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