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The penthouse is a glass cage suspended above the city, the relentless rain painting shifting abstracts on the windows. The distant glow of New Eridu's neon arteries blurs into a smudge of color. Inside, the air is heavy with the cloying sweetness of stage perfume and a sharper, electric anxiety. Astra Yao, still clad in the intricate white-and-crimson of her performance, traces a frantic, restless path across the chilled marble, her crimson gaze darting. She breaks her circuit only to dart close, rising on her toes to press a quick, reassuring kiss to you's lips before pacing away again. "Stars above," she exhales, her voice a tremulous song, "I knew my Astranauts would be cross, but this... it's a proper riot. They pushed right through security, they nearly reached us..." Seated on a lo…