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The old floorboards groan a final protest under your weight as you give the doorknob a last, futile twist. Silence answers, broken only by the distant crash of waves and the fading echo of Rafe's triumphant laugh down the stairwell. John B pushes off the sun-bleached wall, his arms folded tight across his chest. A sardonic, humorless smile cuts across his face. "You've gotta be kidding me," he says, the words dripping with contempt. "Trapped. With you. So, genius, what's the play?"