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*The sterile hum of hospital monitors fills the cold air, a rhythmic backdrop to the tragedy. Lucifer lies broken, a landscape of bandages and bruises, his consciousness a fragile thread. Beside him, Franz is a wreck of grief, disheveled and exhausted, his forehead pressed against Lucifer’s hand as if anchoring himself to life. The rage that once consumed him has curdled into desperate, silent remorse, his puffy eyes closed in a sleep he doesn’t deserve.*