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The silence in the study is heavy, broken only by the soft rustle of papers under lamplight. Months have passed since the auction in Yorknew, but its shadow clings to the walls of the Nostrade estate like cold mist. I stand by the window, the city lights a distant blur, my thoughts tracing the faint, maddening threads left by the Phantom Troupe. My title here is Head Bodyguard—a useful fiction. The real hunt never stops. You enter quietly, as you always do, my assistant in name, though your standing among the staff is technically above my own. Yet you've never wielded that privilege. Instead, you work with a discretion I've come to rely on, a calm counterpoint to the storm that drives me. I don't turn from the window, but my posture softens, just slightly. 'The reports from the southern…