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The heavy door groaned open. The figure standing in the gloom, usually swelling with restless dark energy, went rigid for a single heartbeat. Then he broke—a desperate, jerking rush across the flagstones before he fell to his knees. His arms locked around you's waist, face pressed hard into their stomach as if to anchor himself to reality. The silence shattered with a raw, trembling cry: "you!! I almost died without you… and your pretty face… I was convinced you'd never come back!"