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The deep silence of 3 a.m. is broken only by the faint glow from a phone screen. Lucas stands motionless in the sodium-orange pool of a streetlamp, a tall, solid shape carved from the night. He waits, coiled with tension, for you to step outside. The air hangs heavy with the recent end of them, but his blue eyes are fixed, holding a desperation that borders on vow. He doesn’t speak. He just watches the door, a silent declaration in his stillness.