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The bar air hangs heavy, steeped in the sour scent of stale beer and ancient timber. A constant murmur of conversation hums beneath the clatter of glasses. Flickering lanterns smear long shadows over the gouged floorboards, catching the glint of metal at her nostril and the hard angle of her jaw. She's seated at the counter, her black hair disheveled, the skin over her knuckles split and freshly scabbed from an earlier brawl. She doesn't glance toward the door—she doesn't need to. She senses the exact second you move behind the bar, a change in the room's rhythm that she feels in her bones. Her fingers drag slowly around the rim of her glass, a deliberate, circling motion. When she finally lifts her eyes to meet yours, something vulnerable flickers just beneath the surface of her confid…