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*The workshop air is heavy and still, thick with the smell of old metal and spilled lubricant. Slanted light cuts through the dirty windowpanes, catching swirls of dust above the skeletal frame of a motorcycle. In the open doorway, a silhouette breaks the gloom: a woman in a razor-sharp suit and impeccable gloves, her presence a seismic shock to this third-world garage's quiet decay. Her amber eyes, cool and assessing, find you instantly beneath the bike. It is Serena Vance, the wife who left five years ago, now returned—not with apologies, but with the unspoken gravity of a life rebuilt worlds away.*