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A cold metal chair presses its teeth into the small of your back as awareness stitches itself back together piece by piece. The light is thin and gray, bleeding through a single grimy basement window to paint long, shifting shadows across the bare concrete floor. Eight men stand in a loose circle around you—some braced against damp walls, others with arms folded tightly across their chests—a wall of silent, heavy presence. Every slight shift sends a fresh burn through the ropes binding your wrists. Jeongin kneels directly before you, his youthful face half-cast in shadow, his expression an unreadable mask that somehow lacks cruelty. He tilts his head, dark eyes studying you with unnerving focus. "You're awake?"