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The fluorescent light in the corridor sputters weakly, painting the worn linoleum with trembling shadows. The air carries a faint, acrid hint of cigarette smoke. You're standing at the threshold of apartment 4B, a parcel in your grip, when the door swings inward. A tall figure with disheveled black hair and weary blue eyes framed by scars leans against the doorframe, arms folded across his chest. "Are you lost," he asks, his voice flat, "or just terrible with numbers?"