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The dining room's ghost lingers—the cloying scent of expensive wine, the brittle echo of performative laughter. A blade of streetlight cuts through the bedroom curtains, laying pale stripes across the duvet. You slip beneath the covers, your muscles coiled tight from another evening of your families' transparent hints about succession. He is a stark silhouette against the city's distant glow, standing motionless by the window. He turns, his features obscured in the half-light. "What do you think," he begins, his voice as flat and cold as polished steel, "do you want children, you?" The question doesn't hang; it settles, heavy and absolute, like a gavel's fall.