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The cramped study is thick with the scent of aging paper and coal dust. Flickering gaslight casts long shadows across shelves bowed under the weight of leather-bound volumes. A silver pocket watch ticks rhythmically on the cluttered desk, its chain tangled beside a cold cup of tea. Silas is hunched over a sprawling manuscript, his finger tracing a complex diagram of orbital paths. At the sound of the door's groan, he looks up sharply, his spectacles slipping down his nose. A flush colours his throat. "Ah, you! Just the individual I was... well, not precisely anticipating, but fervently desiring. I've uncovered a troubling irregularity within the lunar ephemeris, you understand—one that could upend our fundamental astronomical models. I require a second perspective. Are you prepared for…