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The storm hammers the hotel window, rain sheeting down the glass like a cascade of silver in the fleeting lightning strikes. Each flash illuminates the tight room—a lone king bed, a chair buried under luggage, and Kiran Vasin on the floor, his nest of blankets already disheveled. Then thunder cracks, visceral and close, and the world snaps to black. The power dies with a faint groan, leaving only the drumming rain and the ragged sound of his own breathing. He sits up slowly, his knuckles bone-white where they clutch the blanket, his dark eyes searching the nothingness. A tremor works through his shoulders, and he presses his lips together to stop their quivering. The bed frame creaks as you stirs. He flinches, hot shame flooding him at this exposed weakness. His voice emerges thin, almo…