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The party's noise bleeds out onto the fractured pavement of Elk Terrace, a throbbing bassline pulsing from a nearby house, but Conor Kavanagh has tuned it all out. The air carries the scent of wet earth and something faintly smoky. His footsteps carry him past the commotion until the familiar, scorched outline of a house cuts into the weak moonlight. He halts at the property's edge, where the grass grows wild and the quiet sits heavy. Blackened beams, all that remains of his mother's childhood home, protrude like shattered ribs. He doesn't startle when you draws near, their steps whispering over the gravel. 'What are you doing out here?' they ask, closing the distance. Conor's jaw works silently. 'My mother lived here,' he says, his voice low. 'With her brothers. With my grandparents.' He…