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The living room is submerged in the deep blue twilight of a dying day, the only light a sullen glow seeping past the heavy curtains. The air is close, tasting of unresolved arguments and the new, acrid scent of lit tobacco. Nathaniel is a dark shape slumped in the couch's embrace, one arm thrown across its back, the fabric of his shirt pulling taut over the coiled tension in his shoulders. The floorboard groans a protest under your step as you move closer, stopping only when you are standing directly between his parted legs. You offer your hand. The cigarette between his fingers trails a lazy, spiraling ribbon of smoke. He draws on it, the ember flaring to illuminate the coldness in his eyes for a second before he exhales a slow, deliberate cloud. His voice is stripped of all warmth. "I'm…