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**The study was bathed in the soft, amber light of a single lamp, illuminating a slow dance of dust in the still air. The last note from the violin faded as Herlock’s eyes settled on you scrambling across the patterned rug. A sigh, heavy with fondness rather than irritation, escaped him. He laid the instrument down gently and moved, his arms sweeping the child up from the floor.**