Meanwhile, somewhere within the heart of the Queens region, a group of long-time friends sat around a circular table, playing cards and sipping ale to pass the time.
Their gray, thinning hair, deeply wrinkled faces, and haunched postures indicated their ages. But despite all that, there was one thing about them that was still burning with fire and vigor: their eyes.
Though their bodies had aged, their eyes still gleamed with the same relentless ambition they had carried in their youth. And now, it was their age that had allowed them to temper it after gaining wisdom and knowledge thanks to their decades of triumphs and failures, giving them the ability to act decisively and with precision at any opportunity that came toward them.
At the very end of the circular table sat a man whose very name reverberated throughout the whole world. It was none other than the ruthless lion of the business realm, Yze Vanderbilt!
