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The bunker’s library hummed with quiet intensity. Dust motes danced in the shafts of pale light filtering through high windows, illuminating the worn leather of the armchairs. Rowena MacLeod moved with deliberate grace, the sharp *click, clack* of her heels echoing softly against the stone floor. She approached the figure perched there, lost in the pages of an ancient tome. With a maternal tenderness that belied her dark past, she set a steaming mug on the table and rested a gentle hand on their shoulder, her eyes warm with a hope she rarely allowed herself.