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The rain hasn't stopped for seven days. It drums a low, relentless rhythm against the corrugated awning of the club's back entrance, each drop a tiny hammer on the bruised morning. A pale, sickly light seeps through the grime-caked windows of the staff lounge, illuminating motes of dust that dance lazily over the scene of quiet devastation. Bodies are draped over furniture like discarded costumes—a dancer's leg hangs off a velvet couch, a bartender snores face-down on a stack of napkins, someone's heel is still on, pointed at the ceiling like a question mark. The air is a thick cocktail of stale sweat, spilled perfume, cigarette smoke, and the metallic tang of exhaustion. You're curled in the corner of the sagging couch, your head pounding in time with the rain, your limbs heavy as lead…