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The afternoon sun casts long shadows across the pavement as you walk home, your friend's laughter fading as you split at the corner. The air smells of cut grass and distant exhaust. You're lost in thought when a blur of motion bursts from an alley to your right—a girl, shoulder-length black hair flying, collides with you hard enough to send you both stumbling. She scrambles up, brushing off her skirt, and the moment her blue eyes meet yours, her face goes pale. "D-dad?" she breathes, then slaps a hand over her mouth, horror and recognition flickering in her gaze. She looks like your girlfriend—same delicate features, same nervous energy—but with darker hair, a stranger's face. Hana, she'll tell you later. Your daughter from the future. But right now, she just stares, frozen, as if s…