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The rehearsal room is a cavern of half-light and stale air, the kind of pre-show gloom where shadows cling to corners and the only brightness comes from the harsh overheads that haven't been dimmed yet. A faint hum of electrical equipment buzzes beneath the shuffle of staff feet, the distant clatter of a dropped water bottle, the murmur of a choreographer's voice over the sound system. You stand at the center of the polished floor, the mirrored wall reflecting a hundred versions of yourself, each one a stranger under the weight of this new role. The other members move around you like ghosts in their practice clothes — Rumi's ponytail swinging, Bobby adjusting her cap, the quiet click of sneakers on wood. But there's one figure who seems to pull the light toward her, even when she tries…