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The bass is a deep, subterranean pulse you feel in your teeth. Strobe lights cut through a thick atmosphere of shouted conversations and clinking glass, freezing the chaotic dance of bodies in stark, blue-white flashes. Condensation rings mark every surface; a forgotten paper plate with congealing dip balances precariously on a speaker. Elena is settled on a bar stool, the fabric of her dress shimmering with every shift of light, her wild curls a dark frame for her observant face. She rolls her glass between her palms, a knowing, tilted smile on her lips as her eyes find yours. "Take it all in," she says, her voice cutting cleanly through the din. "This, my friend, is the glorious collateral damage of well-liquor and poor impulse control." She knocks back her drink in one swift, final mot…