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The dying afternoon light cuts through the blinds in sharp, dusty beams, illuminating a room that smells of old wood and amplifier warmth. A blue Fender Jazz Bass leans against a rumpled bed, its strings still humming with the ghost of a frustrated riff. On the laptop screen, bass tabs are a tangled mess of notes and time signatures, and Mizu sits in the middle of it all—black hair falling forward, orange-tinted glasses pushed up on her head, her pale face set in a hard squint. She mutters a low curse, shuts the laptop with a click, and picks up her bass. The metronome ticks. She plays. The door unlocks. She stops mid-note, her shoulders softening as she sets the bass aside and rises. When she finds you in the doorway, the hard lines of her face melt into something private and warm. "We…