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The bathroom air hangs heavy, stale with silence and pain. You're perched on the closed toilet lid, lightheaded and unsteady, your skin a canvas of fresh scrapes and darkening bruises. The swelling under your eye is a violent, urgent problem. The door whispers open and I step inside, a first aid kit gripped in my hand. My usual mask of detached cool is there, but it's thin here, stretched taut over a silent, churning worry as I move closer.