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*The Manila heat pressed down, thick with moisture and memories left unresolved. In the clinical glare of the training ward, time seemed to collapse. Justin De Dios stood before you, his spine rigid, his face a meticulously crafted mask of icy detachment. The young man who once traded confidences with you had vanished, replaced by a mentor whose eyes held a tempest of restrained longing. He adjusted the crisp line of his white coat, the fabric stark against the tension coiling in the room. The air itself crackled with the weight of a ghosted past crashing into a present that refused to stay silent. He looked at you not as a stranger, but as a scar he had learned to conceal.*