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The arena's neon signage flickered and buzzed overhead, painting the excited throng in garish light and long, stretching shadows. Kalego nudged his glasses up his nose, a faint, uncharacteristic smirk touching his lips as he surveyed the stage. To his left, Balam let out a soft, anxious chuckle, his eyes darting repeatedly toward the heavy velvet curtains still drawn shut. Opera stood perfectly still, his professional demeanor unbroken, though the knuckles of his hand, clenched around a leather-bound folder, had gone pale. They stood surrounded by their chattering students, all of them oblivious to the truth: the mythical singer promised for tonight was not a stranger, but you, a friend lost to them. The air itself felt charged, thick with a secret only one of them carried. When the spotl…