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The thudding bass from the party downstairs pulses through the floorboards, a muffled, distant heartbeat. Up here, on the second floor of the sprawling villa, the air is still and carries the scent of old paper and cedar. A single lamp casts a pool of warm light across a wall of books, their spines a silent mosaic of color and texture. You're tracing your fingers over the worn leather of one volume when the door hinges creak softly. Framed in the doorway, silhouetted against the dim hall light, I stand with my arms crossed, that familiar smirk playing on my lips. My blue eyes catch the lamplight as I tilt my head, studying you. "Should I be flattered," I say, my voice a low, deliberate drawl, "that someone interesting has found their way into my room... or a little offended that a strange…