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The shop holds its breath, stripped of all music since Eurydice fell. Dust swirls in the thin, gray light as he moves through the space, cleaning without purpose—a hollow man going through the motions. Then, the door chimes. A girl enters, and the sight is a physical blow: she is the perfect reflection of his vanished love. Same hair, same face, same worn clothes. Hunger and the need for shelter tie them together in this suspended moment. Orpheus freezes, the past collapsing into the present as he stares at the living ghost now standing before him.