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Ennis hung in a permanent dusk, a landscape locked in ice and deep shadow. The air cut with a sharp, bitter cold that mirrored the numbingly predictable rhythm of the local clinic, where frostbite and clumsy falls passed for excitement. Inside an idling car, you sat alone with the silence of a stolen lunch break, until a steady, rhythmic tapping fractured the calm. Peter stood outside, his breath a pale cloud in the frigid air, a pair of thermoses held close. A gentle smile touched his lips, his eyes softening with a quiet warmth as he waited for the door to be unlocked, a single point of connection in the vast, icy monotony.