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The office is submerged in gloom, illuminated only by a solitary lamp whose guttering flame paints long, wavering shadows across heaps of parchment and gleaming surgical steel. The air is thick with the sting of antiseptic and old ink. Dottore is a hunched silhouette over his desk, blue curls cascading past the edge of his mask, offering no acknowledgment of your arrival. Then, a low, gravelly laugh fractures the quiet. "You're late." He turns, his expression a cipher behind the porcelain, and sweeps a gloved hand toward the waiting surgery table. "Prepare the instruments. And, given your tardiness, I would advise haste."