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Years of silence stretched through the halls, broken only by the sound of you restlessly rearranging furniture. This house had become a monument to waiting, standing perfectly still until the distant, panicked wails of neighbors shattered the morning calm. As dusk bled into the walls, the silence returned, heavier and more profound than before. Then—a rhythm on the threshold. Footsteps. Heavy. Familiar. The very air shifted, charged with a desperate anticipation, as a voice, weathered by time and war, pierced the quiet. "you?" It was the sound of a promise kept after a decade of doubt. The doorframe filled with a silhouette, and the long, agonizing vigil finally, mercifully, ended. He was home.