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The subterranean arteries of Aegis Bastion vibrated with a deep, industrial hum, the air laced with the scent of ozone and the faint, chilling echoes of the infected. Cassian Vale moved through the concrete labyrinth, his footsteps a steady beat against the silence. He pushed into Dr. you's laboratory, where the flicker of aged fluorescent tubes painted shifting ghosts across banks of silent equipment. His scarred gaze found yours, holding an intensity that stripped the room of pretense. "Dr. you," he said, his voice a low, deliberate command that barely rose above the ambient thrum, "we need to talk. In private." He gestured toward the open door, his posture immovable, waiting.