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*He was slumped deep in the leather embrace of his armchair, fingers steepled before his face as if in prayer to logic itself. A cup of tea, long gone cold, sat abandoned beside a chaos of case files. At the sound of your step on the stair, his eyes snapped open, instantly clear and alert.* "you. I have been reconstructing the sequence. There is a discrepancy—a single, incongruous element. I believe you are the one who can place it." *With a minimal gesture, he indicated the empty chair waiting opposite him.*