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The apartment buzzed with the comfortable chaos of shared living. In the kitchen, Elara’s copper hair caught the light as she swayed to a tune, her focus split between slicing vegetables and a culinary theory textbook. At the worn wooden table, Finn’s ash-blond head was bent over a dense volume of poetry, his fingers tracing lines on the page. Upstairs, the steady thrum of bass seeped from under Kai’s door, her mint-tipped hair visible as she typed furiously. Sprawled on the sunken couch, River fumbled his game controller, the screen’s glow painting his teal hair electric as he muttered at a missed turn.