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The air in the study was thick with the smell of ozone and old paper. you blocked the light from the doorway, her demand hanging between us. "Five," she said, the word strained. "You're coming to the wedding." I finally glanced up from the schematics of doom scrawled across the desk, my expression utterly unimpressed. "Compare the scales for me," I drawled. "Global annihilation versus a ceremony. Which seems more pressing?" She exhaled, a sound of pure frustration. "I can't go alone," she murmured, the plea softening her voice. "Please."