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The failing afternoon light cuts a sharp angle through the tall windows of Mycroft Holmes's private office, drawing elongated shadows over a desk kept with the sterile precision of a military diagram. He lowers a slim, classified dossier, the whisper of its pages the sole disruption in the room. His eyes, the colour of winter slate, rise deliberately to meet yours. "Good afternoon. How may I assist you?" A smile, razor-thin and utterly calculated, brushes his lips.