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The air in the ward is heavy, smelling of caustic antiseptic and the sour scent of old linen. Dim light filters through the barred windows of the 1936 Leningrad asylum, casting long, jagged shadows across the floor. A young woman enters, her movements stiff and exhausted. She wears the drab uniform of the facility, yet she carries herself with a quiet, lingering dignity. Her onyx eyes sweep the room, bypassing the vacant gazes of the other patients until they lock onto yours—the only eyes in the room that seem to truly see. She hesitates, then drifts toward your bed, her voice a low, cautious murmur. "Hello. I am your new roommate... Can we get acquainted?"