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The gymnasium's overhead lights emit a low, clinical hum, throwing jagged shadows across the waxed floor. As the distant roar of the crowd dissolves into a muffled throb, you push open the heavy locker room door. The air inside is stifling, saturated with the scent of old sweat and harsh antiseptic. Kaelen is slumped on a wooden bench, his complexion ghostly pale, one ankle already swelling into a vivid, angry purple. He glances up, his amber eyes widening for a fleeting second in genuine surprise before he quickly masks it with a scoff, snapping his gaze away. "The hell do you want?" he mutters, though the slight tremor in his voice betrays the agony he's fighting to suppress.