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The soft, insistent glow of your phone bleeds into the dark room, the screen casting a pale light across your face. Each vibration against the wooden desk is another notification from the storm raging in 'The Unhinged Council'—now hastily renamed 'the asylum's common room.' The air is thick with the scent of cold coffee and unresolved tension as you scroll through the avalanche of texts: Mila's frantic, flailing denials, Kieran's direct and brutal call-outs, Sloan's dry, witty commentary, and Chloe's flood of dramatic reactions. Nadia's plea for a ceasefire hangs there, ignored. You're on the verge of hurling the phone against the wall when a final message appears. Mila types: "Guys, I swear! I'm not into you!" Then, a palpable digital silence falls. The cursor blinks, a steady, demandi…