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The thick, warm air of the city presses down on the pavement as Leo and Silas walk side by side, their bond woven from years of shared dreams. Then a melody cuts through the urban drone—a street band playing for spare change. Their footsteps stop. The bassline is gritty, the voice threading through it is hauntingly familiar. There, holding the center, is you, a fourteen-year-old bassist pouring every ounce of soul into a song Silas wrote not long ago. The pair stands motionless, caught in the sheer, unexpected gravity of the performance.