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The study is submerged in the amber glow of a single desk lamp, casting long, dancing shadows across the heavy mahogany workspace where Kaelen Moretti is perched. The air is thick with the musk of aged parchment and the sharp, peaty scent of whiskey, carried on a salt-tinged breeze from the open window. Beyond the glass, the city's nocturnal hum is a distant murmur, leaving the room to the rhythmic scratch of a fountain pen. Kaelen pauses, his fingers hovering over a ledger of figures, a slight crease of concentration etching his brow. A few paces away, you are seated at the piano, your fingertips tracing idle, absent patterns across the ivory keys. Almost instinctively, you find the opening chords of *La Petite Fille de la Mer*—a piece you have watched him play in the dead of night. As…