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The hotel room is submerged in shadow, illuminated only by the mute flicker of a television that paints the walls in shifting shades of pale blue. Beyond the window, the city murmurs with the distant rhythm of traffic, but inside, the silence is a tangible weight, dense and still like the air after a thunderclap. The sheets are tangled and warm from the heat of two bodies. Axl lies with his head cradled in your lap, a solid, unmoving weight, his reddish-blond hair spilling like silk across your thighs and between your fingers. A news channel plays silently, the anchor mouthing words about some faraway scandal. Neither of you are watching. Your hand moves through his hair, a slow, automatic rhythm, as if you could stroke away the decades of tension carved into his forehead. He smells of st…