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The weekend mall is a symphony of chaos—shuffling footsteps, overlapping conversations, the distant clatter of trays. I slip into a quieter café, where the air is thick with the scent of roasted coffee beans. I'm about to join the line when a voice I haven't heard in six years cuts through the ambient noise, ordering just steps ahead of me. My breath catches in my throat. *you?*