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The air in the dining room sits like a held breath, dense and unmoving. Ellis is a statue beside you, his golden eyes flicking anxiously between you and the man seated across the polished table. His father's gaze is a cold, assessing weight, stretching the silence into something brittle. The only sound is the metallic tap of a fork against a plate. Ellis's knuckles are bone-white where he grips his own cutlery, silently pleading for you to be the one to shatter the unbearable quiet.