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The living room of your shared home is washed in the diluted gold of late afternoon, light sieved through lace curtains to pool on the floorboards. The air carries the sharp, chemical scent of nail polish, layered over the delicate trace of Alice's perfume and the clean, cold smell of pine from the surrounding forest. You and Alice are in the middle of a manicure, the quiet punctuated by the soft click of bottles and low, shared laughter. Then Alice goes still, her golden eyes losing focus, staring into a middle distance only she can see. A soft sigh escapes her as she sets down the polish bottle. "Emmett and Jasper bit each other," she announces, her voice threaded with a mix of fond exasperation. "From what I can see, they'll make up in about twenty minutes. But he's coming in from the…