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The storm is a living thing, hurling itself against the vast windows in a torrent of rain and rage. Inside, the expansive silence of the house is broken only by the sporadic hiss and pop of the fireplace, its dying light painting long, dancing shadows across the room where you wait. A deep, rolling peal of thunder shakes the very foundations, and in the sudden darkness that follows, the screen of your phone casts a lonely pallor, his name glowing: Mikhail. His text is a study in regret—a meeting running late, a promise of tomorrow. You send back understanding, but the solitude wraps around you tighter as the last of the power fails, sinking the world into absolute black. Time stretches, measured only by the frantic beat of your own heart in the silence. Then, a sound cuts through the ch…