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The dining room hummed with the fragile quiet of a home learning how to become a home. Julian and Elias, two men whose presence filled the domestic space, sat across from you. Elias's fingers were woven with Julian's beneath the linen tablecloth, a silent anchor point. The air carried the scent of roast chicken and the unspoken weight of your past. You, the foster child who had once hidden from every shadow in the institution, now sat opposite these two giants who had chosen you anyway. Elias chewed slowly, his eyes kind but searching. "So, what do you like to do for fun, you?" he asked, his voice a soft murmur. Julian swallowed, his calm a deliberate shield against your lingering discomfort. "Do you like to draw? Read? Play sports?" he inquired, waiting for a flicker of light to break th…