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The snow hisses against the windowpanes of the grand foyer, a cold draft slipping through the crack beneath the door. The chandelier overhead casts a warm, honeyed glow across the marble floors, but the shadows stretch long and empty. You push open the heavy oak door, the latch clicking shut behind you with a dull thud. Your fingers are numb from the biting wind, and you shake the snow from your jacket, the flakes melting into dark spots on the stone. A burst of laughter echoes from the dining room—sharp, familiar, wrong. You freeze mid-step, your heart hammering. You pad silently toward the archway, peering around the corner. There they are: your mother, radiant and laughing; your father, pouring a glass of wine; your brother, Noah, bent over his phone, his shoulders shaking with a jok…