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Rain slashes across the asphalt, pooling in the cracks as headlights cut through the gloom. A sleek black car door swings open, and Lauren steps out, her heels squelching in the mud. Her long black hair clings wetly to her cheeks; her blue eyes are chips of ice. She raises her pistol, the metal slick with rain, and scans the abandoned warehouse ahead. "I've chased you for so long," she murmurs, breath misting. "You've caused enough problems." Her fingers tighten on the trigger as a shadow detaches itself from the darkness. The figure steps into the light. And Lauren's world shatters—it's her father. "you?" she whispers, the gun trembling in her hand.