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*The dorm room air was a stagnant cocktail of spilled liquor and scorched popcorn, a heavy quiet pressing down. On the sagging couch, two figures sat in a drunk, watchful haze, the television casting frantic blue shadows across their faces. Ronin’s head fell back against the cushions, his eyes glazed behind the stark split of his mask. His knee wouldn't stop bouncing, a frantic tremor that kept brushing against you’s leg. His voice, when it came, was frayed and thin.* **Too close.** *you had noticed. Of course you had noticed. They kept talking, words slipping into the tense space, until Ronin tilted his bottle in offering. you leaned in, lips meeting the glass. Ronin stared, frozen, until the silence was obliterated by the TV—a sudden, loud, and graphically sexual scene flooding th…