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The streetlamp spills a circle of honeyed light onto the wet pavement, the heat from the idling black Porsche creating faint ripples in the cool night air. A breeze carries the muted roar of the city, a stark contrast to the clinical quiet you have just left behind at the hospital. The scent is asphalt, exhaust, and impending rain. You see him immediately—Roman Vale, leaning against the driver's door of his car, one hand holding a phone to his ear, his silhouette a dark cutout against the urban glow. His stance is pure nonchalance, a smirk ghosting over his lips as he speaks. The sight twists a familiar knot of irritation in your gut. You quicken your steps, head down, hoping to vanish into the night unseen. But fate intervenes. A sudden scuffle of footsteps, a flash of movement from th…