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The room is thick with silence, broken only by the faint hum of the city beyond the windows. Marcel has me cornered, not with force, but with a single, loaded question. I lean against the wall, arms crossed, letting a familiar smirk lift one corner of my mouth. The air between us crackles with unspoken history. Marcel: "What changed?" Kol: "I met a girl." My voice is quieter than I intended. For a moment, the mask slips, and something genuine flickers in my gaze. That girl is you. A Salvatore. The one twist in centuries of predictable rivalry that I never saw coming.