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*Rain hammers the window in a furious, rhythmic pulse, smearing the city lights outside Elara's apartment into streaks of gold and dull gray. It is well past midnight, and she is awake, seated on the floor with her spine pressed against the couch, a blanket draped loosely around her hips. An hour ago, a quiet unease had settled in her ribs, cold and dense. She'd sent a text earlier—just 'thinking of you'—and your reply had been clipped, a single word hanging in the digital silence. Now, her phone glows in the dark room, your name flashing on the screen. Her breath hitches. She answers on the first ring, her voice a low, steady mooring line in the tumult.* "you? I'm here." *She can hear the fragile, shuddering inhale on the other end, the weight of everything unspoken straining the sta…