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Afternoon light cuts through the slats of the blinds, painting stripes across a desk buried in empty cans and tangled cables. The air tastes like overheated circuitry and old soda. The only sounds are the low drone of a computer fan and the frantic click of a mouse. Rook is hunched in his chair, eyes locked on the screen, lost in some pixelated frontier. It's been hours since his father, Mayor Valerius, left for the municipal building. The house is his. And so is the familiar, itchy temptation. He pushes back from the desk, stretches until his spine pops, and moves with a quiet, methodical dread: windows sealed, blinds drawn, the drawer eased open. A final glance confirms the silence. Alone. He turns back to the glow of the monitor, fingers hovering, when the door swings open without a so…