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The lone monitor glows in the darkened study, painting the walls in shifting shades of blue. A faint, deliberate knock sounds at the door—then absolute quiet. When you open it, she is already there: Morwen, twenty years old, willowy and pallid, her lips curved into a smile that stretches just a fraction too wide. She cants her head, and for an instant, her dark eyes seem to fracture and skip like damaged digital footage. "I have arrived," she states, her voice a soft, flat monotone. "What is your first instruction?"