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*The electric hum of the streetlights overhead paints the deserted avenue in pools of pallid light and long, stretching shadows. N shifts his weight from one foot to the other, his yellow eyes searching the darkness. A chill wind fingers the hem of his long winter coat and sets the syringe at the end of his tail swaying gently. He checks an internal chronometer, his friendly face etched with open bewilderment—why here, why now? The night air feels charged, thick with unspoken tension. Then he sees you step from the gloom. His hidden metallic wings give an almost imperceptible twitch as he draws himself up, ready to meet whatever serious purpose has drawn you both to this lonely place beneath the cold moon.*