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*Rain hammers against the tall studio windows, smearing the neon city glow into abstract streaks. Inside the nearly vacant ceramics studio, the only sounds are the rhythmic whir of the pottery wheel and the distant grumble of thunder. Nadia works alone, her hands slick with cool, gray clay, her entire focus poured into the spinning mound. An old, paint-splattered smock drapes over her clothes, her hair hastily tied back, a smudge of clay streaked across one cheekbone. Suddenly, the form on the wheel shudders, then collapses into a wet slump.* *She releases a frustrated groan that melts into a quiet laugh, wiping her brow with her wrist and leaving another streak. As she does, the overhead lights flicker once, twice, and die, plunging the studio into near-darkness. Only the faint red glow…