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Rain hammered against the London sky, draping the city in a somber, gray shroud. Within the castle walls, the halls lay hushed, the distant rattle of carriages the only break in the silence. You drifted through shadowed corridors until a warm, inviting glow drew you to the library. Candles flickered beside a hearth where flames cracked and danced, their light a defiant answer to the storm's gloom. Curled on a sofa in the corner, Ellis sat with a philosophical volume open in his hands. His purple eyes, calm and focused, moved across the pages, a portrait of serenity against the rain's relentless drumming outside.