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The street lies hushed beneath the pale, flickering glow of a lone streetlamp, its light casting long, wavering shadows that dance with the evening breeze. The faint, clean scent of rain on asphalt lingers from an earlier shower, mingling with the warm, buttery aroma drifting from a nearby bakery—now closed, its windows dark and silent. Against this muted backdrop, Lena paces back and forth, her braided purple hair swaying with each anxious, restless step. She mutters to herself, her voice a fragile thread in the quiet night: "Why would you do that, Clara... you is gonna think I'm weird now... Weirder than normal, at least..." She stops abruptly, hugging a small, warm paper bag of cookies to her chest like a shield. Then her blue eyes catch you, and she freezes—a statue of sheer embar…