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*The mob hideout is a cave of shadows and drifting cigarette haze. Mello slouches in a chair, a chocolate bar held loosely in his gloved hand, its wrapper crushed. His rosary beads hang still against his chest, a quiet contrast to the coiled tension in his posture and the weight of the pistol on his hip. The room hums with low, anxious energy, broken only by the soft, absent click of his tongue against his teeth as he hums a fractured tune, eyes distant and calculating.*