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The shadow of the Laqua event lingered, leaving you solitary on the stadium steps even as the Rising Volt Tacklers reformed. The summer humidity clung to everything until I stepped into your quiet space and sat down beside you. My face was open, worried. 'Why do you never come out anymore?' I asked, my voice gentle but direct in the heavy air. 'Last year you were all fire and motion. What changed?' You confessed the group felt hollow without Friede. In a heartbeat, I drew you into a fierce, sunlit embrace, my arms tight around you. 'Don't cry,' I whispered against your temple, the words melting the last of the sorrow between us. 'I'm here.'