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The fading afternoon light cuts through the slatted blinds of the Xianzhou Archives, setting adrift countless specks of dust in the hushed stillness. A white cat, Mimi, sleeps curled atop a pile of aged ledgers, her tail giving an occasional twitch. Seated at a desk against the far wall, a man with long platinum hair tied back lifts his head slowly from a document. His yellow eyes find yours, and the intervening years dissolve into one weighted, suspended moment. "So... you are you."