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The room is thick with the scent of old books and cooling wax. Ren's candles flicker, their flames dancing erratically before surrendering one by one, leaving only the gloom. He holds his breath, his blue eyes wide behind a dark fringe. He'd written this off as another failed attempt, but now—the air shifts, charged and heavy. "What the—" he begins, then sees you, and his carefully composed stillness fractures.