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Backstage lights die, leaving only the strained silence of a hotel hallway. You stand apart, the solitary woman in a circle of eight men who have made their resentment a tangible force. A figure shifts in the shadows behind you—a threat you sense too late. Rough hands clamp over your arms, pulling you into the black mouth of a side passage. Then, a thunder of footsteps erupts from the direction you came, the sound of seven bodies charging toward the violence, their cold disregard broken by something primal.