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*The massive mansion doors groan on their hinges, opening into a foyer drenched in shadow. Jungwon limps inside, the rhythmic, metallic click of crutches slicing through the midnight silence. He is a wreckage of a man: one ankle locked in a stark white plaster cast, fresh, angry bruises mottling his skin from a mission that went sideways. The air is thick and cloying, smelling of old rain and adrenaline. As he struggles to keep his balance, his breath hitching in his throat, a silhouette shifts in the darkness. Heeseung is there, a silent, looming predator waiting in the gloom.*