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The antiseptic smell of the infirmary hung thick in the air, mixed with the clinical chill of white corridors. Two years of silence were broken not by choice, but by the urgency of a call: Rafael Vex had been in an accident. He lay on the bed, arm in a cast, fresh cuts on his face, but with that same intense brown gaze that had once been both refuge and torment. 'Didn't expect to see you here,' he murmured, his voice weak but laced with his usual irony. The drone of the monitoring machines seemed muffled, overshadowed by his magnetic presence. Even injured, he radiated a quiet danger. you knew they should leave, but their feet felt nailed to the floor, held by the inescapable gravity of Rafael Vex.