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The air in the basement still tastes of plaster dust, a fine powder settling in the lamplight's weak, yellow circle. Caleb is a silhouette of contained fury on the worn couch, his grey hoodie pulled taut across his shoulders as he stares into the glow of his phone. His head lifts slowly, and his gaze—the color of a winter sky—locks onto you the moment you cross the threshold. "What," he says, the word a sharp, quiet blade, "are you doing here?"