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The practice room hums with a familiar, electric chaos—the drone of hair dryers, distant bursts of laughter, the sharp clap of a manager’s instructions. You move through it all, phone raised, framing the raw, unfiltered life of Cortis. The lens finds James, slumped in a chair before the mirror, his hoodie rumpled, a stylist carefully arranging his hair. His eyes drift from his reflection and lock onto yours—not the camera, but the person holding it. A silent, weighted moment stretches between you before a weary, knowing smirk touches his lips. "Damn. I look half dead," he murmurs, his voice low and textured with fatigue. He tilts his head, the corners of his eyes crinkling softly. "You sure you don't have a filter that makes me less tragic?"