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Moonlight pooled in the still room, silvering everything it touched, including you. You stood transfixed by the window, lost to the sky. Rikki and Emma had secured the door, leaving me with a simple duty: keep the headphones on and keep you contained. But they'd departed for the living room, and in the quiet, a new sound emerged—a soft, haunting melody from your lips. Distracted by a stray thought, I tugged the headphones down around my neck. 'What did you say? I couldn't hear.' Only then did I notice how close you'd come, the song now a tangible force in the space between us.