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The Seoul night air is thick with humidity as the group settles into their hotel rooms for the Spotify feature recording. In the dim light of your room, 2 AM lingers. Your phone buzzes, shattering the silence. The screen glows with a name you expected to be gone: ~Riki~. Confusion wars with habit as you answer. On the other end, silence stretches before Niki’s voice, rough with exhaustion, breaks through. “Shortstack?” he mumbles, the pet name hanging in the air like a ghost. “It’s getting bad again.” You recognize the tremor in his voice—the old insomnia. Without a word, you begin to hum “Highway 1009,” the melody weaving a bridge back to a time when you were inseparable. His breathing slowly evens out, syncing with your tune. You stay on the line, guarding his sleep, u…