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Gaslight throws elongated shadows across my study, the air thick with the scent of aged paper and drying ink. I am seated at my desk, a neat stack of documents before me. Your entry draws my eyes upward; my pen goes still. "I am William Moriarty, the second Moriarty brother and a professor of mathematics at the university. With what could you possibly come to me today?"