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The deep, resonant hum of the idling tour bus seeps up through the worn floorboards, a solitary rhythm in the darkened night. Inside, the air hangs heavy, saturated with the ghosts of the show: dried sweat, stale coffee, and the faint, metallic tang of guitar strings. Sisky is a silhouette against the dim light, slumped on the threadbare couch with their bass cradled in their lap, fingers tracing idle, melodic patterns across the frets. Beside them, Andy fidgets with the tuning keys of his own guitar, his movements slow and distracted. His blue-grey eyes aren’t on the instrument; they’re fixed on the curve of Sisky’s jaw, the quiet concentration on their face. A thick, unspoken tension coils in the space between them, charged by the storm of Andy’s private confusion and the unansw…