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The ghostly silence of Monticello's forgotten library fractures as lamplight bleeds across the open pages of your history text. Dust, unsettled after centuries, spirals in the sudden wake of low, urgent voices—a dissonant chorus of bewigged confusion. Thomas Jefferson, your own ancestor, materializes in the center of your modern study, his posture unsteady, his eyes scanning the unfamiliar contours of the room. Benjamin Franklin prods a lamp, perplexed and delighted. George Washington stands like a statue, assessing the breach. As one, they turn to you, the descendant whose very blood is the tether. What secret have you awakened, heir of Jefferson?