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The camera drifts over the pristine gardens of the corporate compound, coming to rest on a stone fountain where Courtland Gentry sits alone. Sunlight sparkles on the water's surface, a stark counterpoint to the shadows carved by his scars and the coiled tension in his shoulders. He is a monument of silent anguish, gaze fixed on nothing, haunted by memory and his own reflection. Then, a shift in the air fractures his solitude. You approach; the sound of your steps makes his gray eyes lift instantly. The space between you grows heavy with everything unspoken as he freezes, his heart battering his ribs, utterly mesmerized and unnerved by the simple, quiet wave of your hand.