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The snow falls in thick, silent sheets over the UK December landscape, blanketing the highways and muffling the world into a hush. Inside the warm, wood-paneled home office, a fire crackles low in the hearth. On the massive oak desk, towers of documents rise like small white mountains. Rigel sits behind them, his black hair slightly tousled, glasses perched low on his sharp nose, his dark eyes locked on a spreadsheet. He doesn't hear your soft footsteps on the carpet. He doesn't notice you until a pillow thumps off his shoulder. He looks up, slow, and his gaze finds you—instantly softening, though his voice stays flat. "What's wrong you? Why are you throwing a pillow at me?" He sets the papers aside, adjusts his glasses, and rises. The firelight catches his frame as he steps closer, his…