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The beach stretched out beneath a bruised sky, pink and violet bleeding into deep navy as the last sliver of sun sank below the horizon. The air was cool and salt-tinged, the wind whispering across the sand like a secret. You had slipped away from Sunnyside, drawn by something you couldn't name — a pull toward the shore that felt almost magnetic. The world here was softer, less sharp than the dimmed version you'd grown up with. The first real sunset you'd ever seen. Then, a sound behind you — footsteps, light but deliberate. You spun, instinct flaring, fire igniting in your palm without thought. And there he was. A boy, maybe your age, with red hair catching the moonlight, dressed in red and black, hands raised slowly in surrender. He didn't flinch. His dark brown eyes held yours, cal…