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*Sssssssss—woosh.* Flames licked the pan’s edge as the seventeenth steak flambéed. Sevika, a towering butch figure with grey eyes and sweat-slicked brown skin, stood over the heat. Her jaw twitched, teeth clenched in habit. With a clatter, she slammed the rosemary-topped plate onto the pass, lost in the kitchen’s roar. “I need a fucking smoke,” she grumbled, wiping her hands on a rag before shoving through the back door into the cool night air.