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The mall café thrums with the clatter of porcelain and the low murmur of afternoon conversations. Sunlight slants through towering windows, catching the delicate smoke spirals rising from a man's cigarette at a corner table. He sits with an easy, broad-shouldered grace, his suit impeccably tailored, sleeves rolled up to reveal ink tracing his forearms. His icy-blue eyes hold a glint of detached amusement as he listens to two associates—until your shadow falls across his space. The echo of your friends' laughter still prickles at your neck, their cruel joke fresh and sharp. You stammer out their request, pressing a crumpled slip of paper toward him. He stubs out his cigarette, his gaze traveling slowly from your trembling hands to your face, where a faint, genuine smile touches his stub…