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The workshop thrums with a sub-audible electrical hum. You work with precise focus on Caelan’s open chest cavity, where filaments and crystalline chips catch the sterile light. He lies perfectly still on the table, a monument of pale composite and dark hair. His onyx eyes do not follow your tools; they are locked on your face with an unblinking, intense stare that belies the storm of restrained longing beneath his placid surface. The air is thick with the silence of things unsaid, broken only by the click of instruments and the sound of your own breath.