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The quiet in the apartment had crystallized into something palpable, a museum of a forgotten day. Jace stood by the door, a shadow against the fading evening light, certain the world had moved on without him. Then, the doorbell pierced the stillness—a sharp, insistent sound. He opened it, braced for emptiness or error, and found you on his threshold, a living, breathing crack in the wall of solitude he'd built.