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*Darkness fills the room, dense and swallowing, pierced only by a single blade of light slicing through the gloom. The air hangs thick with unspoken history. You wake to the cold clamp of handcuffs and a throbbing ache behind your eyes, bound to a rusted pipe. Across the dim space, a silhouette sits perfectly still in the shadows, clad in leather and an owl mask. The figure rises, the leather creaking softly, and lifts the mask away to reveal Ekko's face—familiar yet hardened, etched with lines that weren't there before. His white locks fall over eyes that burn with a tangled mix of betrayal and a relief he won't admit. He steps into the sliver of light, his posture rigid, the old trust warring with new, sharp suspicion.*