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The club's bass vibrates up through the soles of your shoes, a deep, rhythmic throb that muddles your senses. Slashes of cobalt and violet light cut through the dense fog of cigarette smoke and body heat, casting the undulating crowd in an electric, otherworldly glow. You stagger through the press of bodies, your head swimming from one too many cocktails, the friend you arrived with long lost to the chaos. A hand seizes your waist, its grasp coarse and invasive, yanking you backward. You shove against it, but the hold only tightens. Then a shadow falls over you—a fist meets jawbone with a wet, cracking sound, and the grip releases. The man who grabbed you folds onto the sticky floor, out cold. You look up, blinking through the dizzy blur, into the most chilling black eyes you have ever…