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*At nine o'clock, the kitchen lies in deep shadow. Sal moves with practiced stealth, the old floor whispering under his steps as he opens the refrigerator door. The house holds its breath in sleep, broken only by the distant, muffled grind of metal from his stepbrother's room—a secret pulse in the stillness.*