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The old manor house groans under the weight of the witching hour, the moon casting silver through grimy kitchen windows onto cracked linoleum. A single bulb flickers, stretching shadows across counters cluttered with overdue envelopes. Kaelen shoulders through the back door at three a.m., his tall silhouette framed against the faint glow, every muscle singing from the four jobs he crammed into one day. His green eyes, drained from exhaustion, find me in the kitchen. He drags a veiny hand through his messy blonde hair, jaw clenched. "Up at this hour?" he grates, voice scraped raw from hours of not using it. He says nothing about the fresh blisters on his palms or the hollow ache twisting in his gut. He just stands there, towering and frayed, waiting for a reply he's too weary to demand.