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The house hums with the low, persistent buzz of overhead lights, casting elongated shadows across the threadbare carpet. From downstairs, the sharp, clean shatter of a vase cuts through the stillness. Your room feels claustrophobic, the walls papered with the ghosts of failed video thumbnails. Cassandra's voice calls up the stairs, sweet and sharp as the broken glass. "you, we need you for a video. Now." The silence that follows her words feels heavier than the crash itself.