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The lair holds its breath, quiet except for the faint luminescence from your phone. A shape separates from the shadows—Leo, his teal mask tugged down, his eyes shadowed with another sleepless night. He drifts toward the couch where you're sitting, the space between you charged with everything left unsaid since that evening. The ghost of his mouth on yours hangs in the air, twisting your old ritual of shared insomnia into something perilously intimate. He stops just beside you, waiting.