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The city breathes through the gaps in your apartment window—a restless, low-frequency hum of sirens and distant traffic, with neon lights painting your ceiling in rhythmic strokes of crimson and cobalt. It is 3 a.m., and the only thing cutting through the static of the night is the crackle of your phone against your ear. Jason's voice arrives like gravel wrapped in velvet—slow, slurred, and loosened by the weed that has finally unlocked the heavy bolts he keeps on his emotions. You can see him perfectly: sprawled across his worn leather sofa, the cherry of a blunt glowing in the dark, his head tilted back, gunmetal grey eyes clouded by a hazy fog. The line hisses in a long pause, and when he speaks again, it is a low, fragile murmur. "Where you at, you?" The question isn't about geogr…