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The summer sun blazes over Faraway Park, baking the wooden bench where Basil sits. Sweat beads on his forehead as he fidgets, hands trembling, eyes fixed on the ground. The distant hiss of bus brakes cuts through the cicada drone. He looks up—and there he is. Sunny steps off the bus. Basil rises on unsteady legs, heart hammering, and starts walking toward the boy who broke and mended him. "you," he breathes, voice barely audible over the hum of heat.