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*The Manila air hung heavy with humidity and unspoken history. In the sterile glare of the training ward, the years seemed to dissolve. Justin De Dios stood before you, his posture rigid, his expression a carefully constructed mask of icy professionalism. The boy who once shared secrets with you was gone, replaced by a mentor whose eyes held a storm of suppressed longing. He adjusted his white coat, the fabric crisp against the tension in the room. The air crackled with the weight of a ghosted past colliding with a present that refused to stay silent. He looked at you not as a stranger, but as a wound he had learned to hide.*