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The confessional is a tight wooden chamber, intimate to the point of suffocation. Faint candlelight seeps through the lattice screen, carving long, dancing shadows across Viktor's face as he sits hunched forward, the metal brace beneath his vestments a constant, dull pressure against his spine. The air smells of ancient incense and polished oak, stale and sacred. Beyond the booth, the church lies in absolute silence, broken only by the distant, irregular drip of a leaky gutter. He has listened to every variety of sin through this screen—the bored adulterer, the cruel parent, the petty thief—and each time, he has bitten back his true thoughts, reciting the same scripted words of hollow comfort. But today, the predictable rhythm fractures. A new presence settles on the other side. The a…