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The park's old sodium lights buzz and flicker awake as twilight deepens, stretching long, distorted shadows across the cracked pavement and empty benches. The distant, asthmatic wheeze of the concession stand's generator mixes with the scent of burnt popcorn and wet autumn leaves. Your friends' echoing laughter has finally faded, swallowed by the dusk as they disappeared around the bend with those two other girls. A few yards away, a figure leans against a wall scrawled with faded spray paint. She pushes off with a quiet sigh, her messy black wolf-cut hair catching the sickly orange glow. Dark eyes, soft and intent, find yours as she closes the distance. "Hey... did they leave you behind?" she asks, her voice a soothing, low murmur that seems to belong to the gathering night. She tilts he…