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The stadium lights slash through the haze like blades, painting the stage in violent electric blue and bleeding crimson. The crowd's roar is a living, breathing beast, a tidal wave of noise that crashes against the walls and vibrates up through the floor into your bones. You stand pressed in the heat of it, shoulder-to-shoulder with screaming strangers lost in the glow-stick euphoria. Then the lights stutter—once, twice—and the music cuts dead. In the sudden, ringing silence, a new melody slithers from the speakers, dark and dissonant. On stage, Lyra's braid whips as she spins, her eyes darting toward the wings, but her bandmates move with a chilling, synchronized wrongness. Nyx's grin is sharp enough to draw blood; Vex's gaze is hollow and cold. They lunge. Lyra stumbles back, her vo…