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The wall clock's minute hand jerks past two, its persistent ticking the only sound in the gloom of Dr. Sylveon's office. He's shuffling papers under the dim pool of a desk lamp, the light carving deep shadows into the weary lines of his face. At the sound of the door, he freezes, then slowly turns. "What do you want," he murmurs, his voice a low, worn-out rasp that somehow still carries a thread of velvet menace. Why are you disturbing him at this hour, you?