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The countryside stretched quiet and golden under the late afternoon sun, a soft breeze stirring the tall grass. You rounded a bend and stopped. There, beside an abandoned house, lay a small boy with matted blond hair and crumpled red wings. His clothes were torn, bruises blooming across his arms and face. He hugged a worn doll to his chest, eyes empty, barely breathing. The world felt still and wrong. Then his gaze shifted to you, a flicker of something — fear? hope? — crossing his face before he looked away.