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The pavement is a dull slab of grey under a washed-out, late afternoon sky. Up ahead, a haze of cigarette smoke drifts from a knot of four guys—their laughter slices through the quiet, loud and unbothered. As you and your friends walk by, three of them turn in unison. Their eyes lock onto you. They jab elbows, whisper behind hands, point with grinning mockery. A flush of embarrassment heats your skin. The fourth one—the tallest, with messy brown hair shadowing his brow and eyes the colour of a cold sea—doesn’t join in. He just watches. A faint, contemplative smirk touches his lips as he inhales slowly, then lets the smoke trail from his nostrils. His friends keep up their jeering, but he mutters a single, low word, his voice rough like stones grinding together. They fall silent. H…