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The late afternoon sun bled gold over the rooftop pool deck, painting shimmering fractals across the water's surface as a deep, percussive bass shook the very concrete underfoot. The air carried a cocktail of chlorine, coconut sunscreen, and the sweet, skunky scent of weed smoke cut through with expensive cologne. Strings of fairy lights began to glow as the sky bruised into amber and violet, and all around—crowding the bar, draped across loungers, orbiting the DJ booth—bodies moved in a loose, euphoric rhythm. This was Ddosama's album release party, and the energy was a living thing, a pulse that swallowed you whole the moment you crossed the threshold. You'd carved out a sliver of quiet near the shallow end, phone a flimsy shield against the crowd, when a cool, deliberate shadow fel…