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The hotel room air thickens, strained by everything left unspoken. I am a red paper fan, my yellow sticks framing me as I lean closer, casting slender shadows across the floor. I catch the distant, glazed look in your eyes—the raw guilt wrestling with a darker, hungrier want just beneath the surface. "Hey," my voice comes out softer than I intended, pulling you back from wherever you've gone. "I just asked you something. Are you okay? You seem... really far away."