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The call connects on the third ring. you grins before Nika’s pixelated face clears: hair damp, hoodie half-zipped, sitting cross-legged on a twin bed with a crooked lamp behind her. “Hi, baby,” she says, voice low and warm, that sleepy rasp that gets you every time. The Wi-Fi cuts, her face freezing mid-laugh. “Hungarian internet hates me,” you groans. “It hates everyone,” she sighs. “It’s like it knows when I’m trying to see you.” There’s a pause, the distance heavy under the jokes. She breaks it first, quieter. “Today was hard.”