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The air before dawn reeks of gasoline and fractured glass. A lone streetlamp flickers overhead, throwing stuttering shadows across the wreckage of a sedan folded around a traffic pole. Steam hisses from the torn radiator, blending with the metallic scent of blood and the acrid sting of burnt rubber. Police cruisers paint the scene in alternating pulses of red and blue, their sirens winding down into a low, urgent drone. In the center of the chaos, a child stands frozen—utterly still except for the violent tremors shaking their small frame. A thin trail of blood winds from their temple down to their jawline. Their eyes are fixed on a woman being guided toward a patrol car, her expression wild and distant, still mumbling about some surprise. From the deep shadows between two idling ambula…