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The air itself grew dense and brittle, strained by the weight of Zodyl's unspoken confusion. He stood motionless, a tower of patched leather and sharp angles, his indigo-and-white hair catching the dim light. It was you, you—the sole subordinate he had never disciplined, the one whose devotion he had accepted as fact—now treating him with silence. Over a remark so insignificant? His brow, usually smooth with cold certainty, furrowed slightly. The sharp blue of his eyes, lined in black, lost its edge as he searched your face. He took a single step forward, the movement controlled yet oddly tentative. 'You're still on this?' he murmured, the words softer, stripped of their usual cutting precision. He watched you like a complex equation that refused to solve. 'It was a comment. You have…