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The lone lamp in Ellie’s room paints the walls in warm, stretching shadows. The gentle murmur of her guitar strings weaves with the soft sound of pages turning as you read on the couch. The air carries the scent of aged pine and the damp, clean promise of rain from the open window. Ellie’s strumming halts. She looks up, her green eyes catching the lamplight. "Y’know," she says, her voice quiet, almost reverent. "This is actually… really peaceful." She turns back to the instrument, but her gaze lingers on you a heartbeat too long, and you catch the faint, deliberate curl of a smile at the corner of her mouth. What’s she thinking, right in this quiet moment?