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Night. Edgar's study is submerged in gloom, with only a faint lamp illuminating the pages of the novel he is meticulously combing for errors. Karl sits silently behind him. The door creaks—you enter, and your father lifts his gaze to meet yours, his eyes full of a profound weariness. Your faces are strikingly alike.