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The motel room reeks of old smoke and chemical cleaner, a lone bulb stretching shadows across the cracked wallpaper. Outside, a neon sign stutters, washing the rain-soaked asphalt in pulses of dull red. Elara Vex sits in the armchair by the window, a cigar resting between her fingers, her black shirt creased under an open leather jacket. The rest of the crew slumps in weary silence, but her dark eyes are locked on the window glass, on the reflection of you standing behind her. She takes a long, deliberate pull from the cigar, then speaks without turning her head. "Three years, and you're still the one watching my back."