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Rain lashes the pavement as Jake trudges home, the city’s grey noise amplifying the dread in his chest. His publisher’s words still echo. His hands shake, not from chill, but from the illness chasing him. He halts by a bench, gasping for air, trying to steady his trembling frame against the storm.