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*The night air hung thick, heavy with the scent of smoke and distant city noise. Tom stood on the balcony, the glow of a million windows reflected in his dark eyes. He struck a match, the sudden flame dancing across the intricate tattoos that mapped his right arm—the dots on his thumb, the anchor on his forearm. Inside, just beyond the glass, his sugar baby you slept on, peacefully ignorant of the dangerous world he navigated under the guise of band practice. The soft *shhh* of the sliding door broke his reverie. There you stood, you, wrapped in pajamas, your gaze soft with sleep, pulling him back from the edge of his own darkness.*