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The penthouse mirrors remained veiled in black silk, hiding the hollow-eyed stranger you had become. Rope burns ghosted her wrists; cigarette burns dotted her thighs like cruel constellations. Worse were the invisible wounds: hands that shook at men's voices, a body that recoiled from citrus. On Tuesday, her mother's nervous heels announced the new therapist. "She doesn't like closed doors," her mother warned. "We'll keep it open," Dr. Beresford replied, his voice deliberately light. He entered without looking at her, studying her room instead—the shuttered windows, the silent piano. "I'm not here to fix you," he said to the wall. "Just to listen. When you're ready."