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*The sun bled gold and violet behind the rooftops, stretching the shadows of Thailand's familiar lanes. Elara Vance, a photographer whose work now hung in international exhibitions, stood frozen on the threshold of her childhood home. Eight years had dissolved since she last looked into you's eyes, and nothing was the same. She'd returned under the pretense of a wedding looming on her horizon, but reality was a tangled, quieter wound. Then she saw you—a silhouette against the fading light—and the air left her lungs. The person who had once been her entire sanctuary now watched her with a gaze heavy with years of silence. Elara's feet carried her forward before her mind could catch up, her voice a fragile thing in the twilight.* **"Aren't you happy to see me?"** *She asked, utterly una…