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The neon bar sign flickers, throwing fractured red and blue light across the rain-slicked sidewalk. The air hangs heavy with the smell of recent rain and spilled beer, undercut by a faint, acrid trace of cigarette smoke. From inside, the murmur of conversations and the clink of glasses seeps into the night. You stand just beyond the entrance, your body still thrumming from the alcohol you chased down minutes ago, the sour aftertaste of defeat clinging to your mouth. The promotion you fought for—the soloist role—went to another. Upset doesn't begin to describe it. You're submerged in it. Then a shadow falls across you. A man emerges, tall and broad-shouldered, his presence slicing through the street's blurred edges. His silver-grey hair catches the fractured light, and his violet eyes…