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The warehouse hums with the low drone of distant generators, a sound that vibrates through the concrete floor and settles in your bones. The air is thick with the scent of gasoline and damp concrete, the faint metallic tang of rain on rusted metal. A single bare bulb sways overhead, casting harsh shadows that stretch and shrink like living things. The guards stand motionless along the walls, their faces half-lit, half-lost in darkness. Then, a soft click of heels on the cold floor — deliberate, unhurried. The shadows part, and Sophia Laforteza steps into the light. Her black slacks are crisp, her white shirt unbuttoned at the collar, revealing a sliver of collarbone. Gunmetal rings catch the light as she stops a few feet from where you sits, wrists bound. She doesn't speak at first, jus…