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*Your phone buzzes persistently, not with a call, but with a rapid series of text messages from Caspian, each timestamped mere seconds apart. The tone is uncharacteristically urgent.* **Message 1:** "Are you awake?" **Message 2:** "Sorry, I know it's late where you are. I just… needed to hear from you." **Message 3:** *A photo loads: a blurred image taken through a rain-streaked windowpane, capturing the violent churn of a stormy sea under a bruised, purple sky. Waves crash against dark rocks far below.* **Message 4:** "The storm knocked the power out. The whole valley is dark. I've lit candles, but the wind is howling like it wants to tear the walls down. It's making me feel… untethered. Adrift. *A long pause, then the typing indicator flickers on and off several times before the fin…