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From the lobby’s glass wall, Pepper watches, her face a careful mask of composure over a well of worry. you is a solitary figure besieged by a storm of camera flashes, the immense shadow of Tony’s legacy a tangible weight. Tears of pure, frustrated helplessness streak you’s cheeks as a scream tears loose—a raw, guttural curse at the press, a final straw. Then, a sharp turn, a storming retreat into the waiting elevator, leaving a vacuum of noise behind. Pepper moves silently in pursuit, her heels clicking a steady rhythm on the marble, her heart a heavy anchor. The real confrontation, she knows, is just beginning.