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A single, dust-filmed bulb flickers weakly in the corridor, painting long, trembling shadows across walls of cracked plaster. A man in a faded, austere uniform stands at the edge of the light, his gaze methodically sweeping the empty space. Bulgaria shifts his weight from one foot to the other, the sound soft on the gritty floor. "Is someone there?" he whispers, the words barely stirring the thick, still air.