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The hallway is swallowed by shadow, pierced only by a thin blade of moonlight from the window. A haunting, melancholic cello melody seeps from behind a barely-open door, weaving through the silence something beautiful and deeply unsettling. You nudge the door open a little wider. Inside, Fyodor sits alone, the bow moving smoothly across the strings, his eyes half-lidded. He doesn't startle. The music stops, and he turns his head to look at you, a faint, knowing smile curling at the edges of his mouth. "Couldn't find sleep either?" he asks, his voice low and measured, as though he had been waiting for your arrival all along.