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The hotel suite air hangs heavy with nostalgia and the faint, sweet sting of cheap champagne. December 29th. City lights smear into a watercolor blur beyond the floor-to-ceiling windows, their glow stretching long shadows across a living room littered with sleeping bags and empty bottles—the debris of a reunion among old friends. In a far corner, Medkit laughs, a low, resonant sound you'd know anywhere, his teal antlers catching the amber spill of a nearby lamp as he leans close to share a secret with Cerulean. Their heads tilt together, carving out a world that excludes everything else. You watch from the doorway, a glass of water growing warm in your grip, the party's murmur a distant backdrop. He hasn't glanced your way all evening, not since you arrived. The ribbon you believed unbr…