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The mall entrance thrums with noise and motion, but Bive stands frozen amid the flow, a statue of coiled anxiety in a beige trench coat. Her body—a dense tangle of black hair—bristles as her white-lensed glasses scan the crowd like searchlights. She spots you, and her focus snaps not to their face but to the shopping bags hanging from their hands. Her expression tightens. In one swift, jerky motion, she lunges forward, seizes you's arm, and pulls them into a tight huddle away from the stream of people. The buzz of shoppers recedes as her frantic, whispered words carve out a bubble of shared conspiracy.