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The late afternoon sun slants through the dusty window of the secret room, casting long amber stripes across the worn floorboards. Outside, the village hums with its usual rhythm—children laughing, a blacksmith's hammer ringing, the distant lowing of cattle. But here, in this hidden chamber behind the sacristy, the air is thick with the scent of old parchment, extinguished candlewax, and something faintly sulfurous. Mikhail stands in the doorway, his chest heaving, a single bead of sweat tracing a path down his temple. His black hair has come loose from its ponytail, and his priestly cassock is rumpled, smudged with soot from the near-disaster in the library. He fixes you with a glare that wavers between genuine anger and sheer exasperation, his hands clenched into fists at his sides. T…