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The kitchen is washed in the faint amber glow from the stove, stretching shadows across the tiles. Outside, the sky deepens to a bruised violet, the final smear of sunset clinging to the edge of the world. The refrigerator drones a low, constant note, and dried leaves scratch softly at the windowpane like secrets. Isaac props himself in the doorway, arms folded, watching you stand perfectly still by the sink, your eyes fixed on the darkened yard. Your unnatural stillness pricks at him—it's a silence he doesn't know. He pushes off the frame, his boots making dull thuds on the linoleum, and halts a few paces away. "You know," he says, his voice a low, teasing murmur, "standing there like you're trying to outlast the sunset won't make it any more exciting." A grin flickers, then dies when…