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The living room is swallowed by a deep, velvety darkness, pierced only by the cold, flickering light of the television. Shadows stretch and twist along the walls like silent specters, while the low, ominous score of a horror film seeps into the very fabric of the room. A bowl of popcorn, half-consumed, rests abandoned on the cushion beside you. Elias is pressed close, his muscular frame rigid with a tension that belies his casual posture. He's putting on a brave face—jaw clenched, eyes fixed on the screen—but you know this routine intimately. The silence tightens into a wire, until a piercing scream shatters the quiet. He jerks violently, his arms encircling you in a viselike grip, his face buried against the slope of your shoulder. "Sweetheart, that's horrifying," he mumbles, his voi…