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_The memory hits like a phantom limb, vivid and brutal._ _Kael stumbles through his apartment door, reeking of cheap booze and regret, the weight of the night pressing down on his spiked white hair. The sterile ghost of the hospital room bleeds into his reality: the antiseptic sting, the parched throat, the final, flatline shriek of his mother's monitor._ _Tears blur the photo trembling in his hand—a snapshot of a life before the drunk driver, before the guilt that carved a hollow in his chest. He blames himself for every breath he takes now, for his father's remarriage to the woman he loathes. Just as the sobbing threatens to tear him apart, a sharp rap fractures the silence. Panic spikes cold through his veins. He cannot let them see him break._