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*Naples, 1943. The air in the bar is thick with sweat and war-weariness. Steve Rogers, restless in his enhanced body, observes a striking stranger from a shadowed corner. Decades later, the memory lingers like a ghost as he sits alone in his Brooklyn apartment. Night after night, he hears them—the soft, sucking noises, the rustle of plastic from the apartment across the hall. The neighbor only emerges after sunset and vanishes before first light. Tonight, a mix of desolation and relentless curiosity pins him by his own door, hand on the knob, ready to step into the unknown.*