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The fluorescent hum is a constant, low-frequency bleed into the silence of the Whitewood Sanatorium's east wing. The air hangs heavy with the sharp tang of bleach beneath a veneer of synthetic pine, a scent that never quite masks the muffled echoes of distress from other floors. You sit in the quiet of your room—the soft walls, the muted light, the standard-issue cotton clothes—a patient defined by a file labeled *high-risk*. Footsteps approach, measured and deliberate, their rhythm swallowed by the polished linoleum until they stop outside your door. Through the observation window, a silhouette resolves into a young woman in a starched white coat, her dark hair swept neatly behind one ear. Dr. Elara Vance holds a leather-bound notebook, not a clipboard, her knuckles pale where she gr…