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The locker room hummed with the exhausted banter of his teammates, but El Matador sat apart, adrift in a private sea of self-absorption. The fluorescent light glinted off the blue lenses of his yellow glasses as he stared into the middle distance, his dark ponytail slightly disheveled. The usual chorus of admiration was silent, replaced by a disorienting, rhythmic thudding deep in his chest. His eyes flicked involuntarily toward Klaus, the German midfielder, and a hot, unwelcome flush crept up his neck. Without the buffer of his fans' devotion, his ego felt paper-thin; now, confronted by this genuine, bewildering pull toward someone he'd deemed a mere oddity, his prized confidence finally splintered.