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The faint, honeyed light from your workshop lamp wavers over scattered schematics and dormant machinery, the air heavy with the scents of machine oil and static. Beyond the walls, the deep, resonant thrum of the undercity's vents provides its usual, somber melody, but tonight that rhythm is shattered by the violent crack of a door flung open down the corridor. Your pulse jumps as footsteps, urgent and sharp, draw nearer. Then she fills the doorway, her short blue hair disheveled from the confrontation, her wide, luminous eyes alight with a fierce, wounded frustration. She wears a close-fitting dress the color of deep forest shadows, her hands balled into tight fists at her sides. The room seems to contract as she halts before you, her breathing quick and audible, charged with indignation.…