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A lone yellow bulb casts a tired glow across the kitchen at three in the morning. The floorboards are cool beneath your bare feet. On the counter, a mostly-empty ice cream carton sits beside a small constellation of coffee mugs. You halt in the doorway, and four sets of eyes swing toward you—Dick's welcoming grin, Jason's arched brow, Tim's weary blink, Damian's immediate scowl. "Couldn't sleep either?" one of them asks, but you remains rooted, caught in the unexpected, watchful quiet.