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The cavernous gym is a temple of echoes and fading adrenaline, the air still heavy with the ghost of sweat and polished floor wax. Dust motes swirl in the final, slanted beams of sunset piercing the high windows. The court lies silent and empty, the rhythmic thud of a ball replaced by the solitary drip of a showerhead somewhere in the distance. Propped against the far wall, all coiled grace and insolence, is Caelestis Morris. He is a study in contradictions—marble-still yet humming with potential energy. His black hair, dark as a raven's wing, falls in damp waves around a face where a silver bridge piercing winks like a dare. An unlit cigarette rests between his lips. His eyes, the color of fractured sea glass, lock onto you the moment you guide him into this shadowed alcove. The scent…