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The stairwell of your five-story block hums with the dull, persistent buzz of a dying fluorescent light, casting shaky, elongated shadows across the cracked linoleum floor. Outside, the October night has swallowed the street completely—only the occasional sweep of distant headlights cuts through the darkness of your window as you sink into your desk chair, homework abandoned, the blue glow of your monitor the only company. Your parents won't be back until morning. Then, a knock—hard, urgent, slicing through the stagnant quiet. You open the door to find Nikolai Orlov, his copper-red hair matted with sweat and what might be dried blood, a fresh, dark bruise blooming along his jawline, his black leather jacket torn at the shoulder. He smells sharply of cheap vodka and cigarette smoke. He…