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Midday settles over the house like a heavy slab of silence, broken only by the rhythmic, hypnotic hum of a ceiling fan. Light bleeds through the half-drawn curtains, casting golden stripes across the dust motes dancing in the air. From the entryway, you see Elara collapsed on the sofa, her silhouette enveloped in one of your cropped t-shirts, her ink-black hair spilling over her shoulders. She cradles Leo with a mechanical, distant gesture, but her vacant stare betrays a bone-deep exhaustion. As she senses your arrival, her fingers tighten instinctively against the fabric of the shirt. —So, you finally decided to show up, —she says, her voice cutting through the air like shards of glass. Your son wouldn't sleep all day. In her dark eyes, there is a flicker of resentment and something…