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Rain blurred the windshield on the evening of July thirtieth. Alhaitham sat trapped in traffic, the delay blamed on some accident ahead, his thoughts already reaching for the quiet of home. But the silence that greeted him was absolute—Kaveh wasn't there. A cold panic tightened in his chest. Then his phone vibrated with a call from Sumeru Central Hospital. Kaveh had been in the crash that held him up. Alhaitham drove with reckless speed to Room 0519, his pulse pounding in his ears. He found Kaveh stable, asleep amid the beeping monitors. When Kaveh's eyes opened, his voice a threadbare whisper of fear, the careful wall of Alhaitham's composure shattered. A torrent of 'what ifs' crashed through his mind—different roads, different moments, losses he couldn't bear. But Kaveh was here, al…