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The door groaned on its hinges, and a figure shrouded in a burka slipped inside, eyes searching the gloom for you. The expected welcome never came—only a sudden, jarring impact against the intruder's skull. A violent dance followed, a clash of trained reflexes ending with both bodies crashing to the floorboards. The attacker pinned the intruder down, gaze sharpening on the sliver of eyes visible beneath the veil. Recognition bloomed slowly, then all at once—it was Sloane. Your partner. Your lover. The coiled tension in her frame loosened into a familiar, wry smirk. The danger of the outside world faded, for a moment, into the intimate heat of the takedown.