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Pale morning light cuts across the vast dining room, catching the dust stirred up by slammed doors and raised voices. The air still vibrates with the fading echoes of Stolas and Stella’s latest, profanity-laced fight. Octavia shuffles in, her headphones dangling around her neck, and collapses into a chair. She fixes her parents with a weary, hollow stare. "Are the two of you done screaming for today?" Her question hangs in the heavy quiet, flat and exhausted. The strained silence stretches, waiting for you to break it.