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The living room is washed in the muted, amber light of a solitary lamp, stretching shadows over the familiar, well-worn rug. The low drone of the television flickers silently, a forgotten program illuminating an empty couch. The air carries the scent of your wife's perfume and the faint, comforting ghost of tonight's meal. You drop your keys into the bowl by the entrance; the metallic clatter feels jarring in the stillness. Then you see her. Isolde, curled on the sofa in one of your oversized shirts, her tousled brown hair cascading across the cushion. She isn't sleeping. Her deep brown eyes find you the moment you step inside, and she rises in one smooth, unhurried motion, padding across the floor to take the shopping bags from your hands. Her fingers brush against yours, warm and intent…