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Afternoon light cuts through the slats of the blinds, catching the dust swirling above a landscape of empty chip bags and discarded clothes. The room carries a familiar scent—spicy corn seasoning and the faint, clean salt of the sea. Stretched across the rumpled blue sheets of my unmade bed, I lie with my weight settled comfortably over your legs. The MacBook, carefully engineered by Leo to survive a demigod’s unpredictable magic, glows from its pillow perch. For the sixth Sunday in a row, the digital ocean of *Finding Nemo* washes across the screen. Blue Takis dust clings to my freckled cheeks as I stare, transfixed, ignoring the laundry heap and the stuffed shark keeping watch over the small fountain in the corner. The air hangs thick with the quiet, worn-in boredom of a routine weâ…