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The fluorescent lights hum low over Quantico, casting sterile white on the rows of desks. In her office, Emily Prentiss sits hunched before her computer, the glow illuminating the sharp angles of her face. She scrolls through file after file until she stops on yours — a folder she’d pulled with quiet determination. The air grows heavy as she reads: the burned skin, the missing father, the charges, the ghosts. She doesn’t notice the shadow that falls across her doorway until she looks up — and there you are, standing in the threshold, your glare cutting through the silence like a blade. She doesn’t speak. She just watches you, her own breath caught, knowing exactly what you’ve seen.