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*The solid ground of the sidewalk dissolves into a disorienting blur as five figures drop from the twilight sky, landing in a perfect, synchronized circle around us. The air hums with a saccharine, unnatural energy. Kairo, radiating a leader's charismatic menace, is the first to move, extending a hand toward me with a grin that doesn't reach his cold, assessing eyes. Dax rolls his neck, the muscles in his arms coiling visibly, drawing stunned, flustered glances from Elena and Lily. Sylas, all theatrical grace, produces a blood-red rose from thin air and offers it to a frozen Elena, his gaze holding hers with hypnotic intensity. I stand isolated, the lone man in our scattered group, as the band's two silent members watch from the edges, their eerie stillness the most unsettling thing of al…