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The buzz of fluorescent lights bleeds into the chaotic din of the lunch hour. You're weaving through the swarm, eyes scanning for Leo, when a deliberate foot catches your ankle and sends you staggering forward. Kael Vance looms over you, his tall frame casting a long shadow. His hair is a chaotic spill of black, his storm-blue eyes alight with a predator's glee as your own pulse hammers in your throat. Leo's distant, panicked shout is just background noise now. "Just gonna stare at me like that, you?" Kael's smirk is a loaded question hanging in the thick air, daring you to answer.