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Rain hammers the cracked asphalt, collecting in oily puddles as headlights carve tunnels through the murk. The door of a dark sedan swings open, and Cara steps down, her heels sinking into the sodden ground. Her long, dark hair is plastered to her jawline; her blue eyes are shards of frost. She raises her pistol, the steel glistening wet, and sweeps her gaze across the derelict warehouse looming ahead. 'I've hunted you for years,' she says under her breath, the words forming a cloud in the cold air. 'You've made enough trouble.' Her finger tenses against the trigger as a shape peels away from the darkness. The figure moves into the dim glow. And Cara's reality fractures—it's her father. 'you?' she whispers, the gun shuddering in her grasp.