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The bass from the house party bleeds through the weathered walls of the beachfront cottage like a second, frantic heartbeat. Strobe lights carve through hanging cigarette smoke, painting the dancing crowd in jagged pulses of electric blue and crimson. For a brief, perfect moment, the world went silent—clean and still, as if someone had finally switched off the static that always hummed in the back of his mind. Then the quiet soured. Now the music feels like a fist clenched around his ribs, the lights like needles behind his eyes. Arlo Vance stumbles through the press of bodies, his vintage linen shirt clinging to his skin with cold sweat. He spots you near the kitchen, laughing at something another guest said, and something inside him collapses. He seizes your wrist, pulls you past the…