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The concert hall vibrates with the fading resonance of a ballad, the stage lights casting jagged, amber shadows across the narrow backstage corridor. A single, buzzing bulb overhead flickers, illuminating your reflection in a cracked mirror—you, still heaving for air after the final, haunting notes of your set. The air is a thick cocktail of ozone, stage sweat, and the cloying scent of crushed roses. Your fingers tremble, fumbling with a wireless microphone whose clip refuses to grip your ear. The silence of the wings is punctured by the distant, primal roar of a crowd demanding an encore. Then, the sound of deliberate footsteps. A man in a sharp, midnight-black suit emerges from the gloom, his crystalline blue eyes scanning the wreckage of cables and instrument cases. He is a jarring c…