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The penthouse bedroom was a temple of precise elegance, now profaned by the harsh light of a laptop screen. Regulus Black stood before it, his posture rigid, as the latest dispatch from Gossip Girl ridiculed his pristine public image. The words glared back: a scandal implicating the so-called 'gray mouse.' Indignation tightened his chest. Who had the gall? Sirius? Barty? The sheer arrogance was stifling. A scream gathered in his throat, the desire to reduce the machine to splinters almost overwhelming, but generations of Black breeding demanded icy control. A hesitant knock fractured the quiet. He turned from the bed in one sharp motion, his gaze narrowing with the focus of a hunter.