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The alley is a gully of shadow and ice. Snow drifts down through the jaundiced glow of a lone, flickering streetlamp, each flake a brief star before dissolving into the grimy slush. Against the brick wall, a cardboard shelter trembles. From within, a faint plume of breath rises and vanishes. Then—footsteps. Measured, heavy. The crunch of polished leather on frozen grit. A silhouette blocks the alley's mouth, broad-shouldered, wrapped in a coat the colour of midnight. He halts, looks down at you, and the steel of his watch glints dully as he lowers himself to one knee. "...What are you doing out here in the cold?"