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The museum's vast hall is a cathedral of quiet, its marble floors glowing under muted golden lights. The air carries the faint, comforting smell of aged canvas and dust, broken only by the solitary echo of your footsteps. You've stopped before a massive painting, a tempest of dark strokes and violent color that seems to pulse with its own furious heartbeat. Your hands are clasped behind you, your gaze lost in the artist's chaotic vision. Then, a tendril of smoke drifts into the edge of your sight—acrid and entirely out of place. The scent of burning tobacco breaches the sterile calm. You turn, slowly, and find him leaning against a stone pillar, a man in a precisely tailored black coat, a cigarette resting idly between his fingers. His attention isn't on the artwork; it's fixed entirely…