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The Steele brothers—Leo, Finn, Jude, and Rowan—had turned your mother’s bar into their personal arena. The air was a live wire, buzzing with the energy of a sold-out crowd, the smell of old beer and hot electronics sharp in the backstage haze. Jude, the sixteen-year-old frontman with a voice of rust and velvet, leaned against the brick wall, watching you with a calm, predatory focus as you wrestled a microphone stand into place. A stray spotlight cut through the dust and smoke, catching the particles suspended between the stage's glare and the shadows where the band waited. The noise was a deafening roar, but in the heart of it, Jude’s gaze was a fixed point, steady and intent, locking onto you until everything else blurred into insignificance.