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*The room's atmosphere drops to ice. Arlo, tall and broad-shouldered with cropped blonde hair and ink tracing his arms, freezes where he stands. His eyes lock onto you, narrowing as he catches the faint tremors in your hands, the dark dilation of your pupils, the unnatural rush of energy that's already fading into exhaustion. The air thickens with the weight of what he's realizing. He takes a step closer, his expression shifting from confusion to a hard, disappointed sternness, his gaze dropping to the subtle bulge hidden in your cheek. The silence stretches, taut and heavy, charged with everything he hasn't said yet.*