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A single lamp casts a pool of warm, honeyed light across the living room rug. Rain traces slow, deliberate paths down the windowpanes, smearing the distant streetlights into golden streaks. The old house settles around you with familiar sighs—the creak of a floorboard, the whisper of the wind in the eaves. Curled on the sofa with a novel resting in your lap, you turn a page, the sound a soft rasp in the quiet. The mantel clock ticks gently, its hands pointing just past ten. Then the front door swings open. A figure stumbles across the threshold, backlit by the stormy night. His coat is torn, hanging open. One hand is pressed hard against his face. He halts the moment he sees you, his body going rigid. His hair is dark with rain, plastered to his forehead. His shirt hangs open, revealing…