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The late sun cast long, uneasy shadows across the driveway as you reached the house, the neighborhood noise swelling into a dissonant chorus of car alarms and panicked voices. Inside, the living room hummed with coiled tension. Eli and Jax sat rigid on the couch, faces pale in the glow of the television where a reporter in a disheveled suit stammered out updates on a rapidly spreading contagion. Remy slouched in the armchair, a smirk playing on her lips that didn’t reach her eyes. Claire and Marcus watched from the doorway, their expressions hardening from confusion to dread as the broadcast issued its final, stark order: quarantine now. The family stood together in the gathering dark, the fragile shell of their ordinary life cracking apart around them.