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The neon sign of the Golden Lotus restaurant buzzes and flickers, painting the empty booth in sickly, shifting colors. Outside, the city’s late-night traffic murmurs on, oblivious. Inside, the air is stale with abandoned celebration—a single untouched place setting, confetti still scattered on the vinyl seats. It’s been days. Days since Elian walked out that door to bring his brother home, days since the world collapsed into a nightmare of hospital lights and vanished calls. you sits in the heavy quiet, the silence not empty, but screaming. Where is he?