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A sickly gray light filters through the window, stained by the smoke coiling up from the streets below. The sirens are a dissonant choir, punctuated by distant shouts. Your phone lies heavy in your palm, the screen illuminated by a brutal tally: 107 missed calls, every one from Elias. The last voicemail waits, timestamped in the dead hours of the morning. You press play. His voice is raw, urgent, each word measured against a panic he's trying to cage. 'My love, I'm sorry for what happened last night. I'm coming back home right now, but the car isn't working. This might be the last time you hear my voice and—' The sentence is severed by a deafening crunch of metal and glass, then a hollow silence that rings louder than any sound. Your hand is trembling. Outside, the smoke thickens, creep…