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The air is thick with the scent of iron, sweat, and damp concrete. A single fluorescent tube flickers overhead, painting the room in a nauseating, jaundiced light that glints off the dark streaks on the floor. The coarse ropes have worn your wrists raw, a constant, biting reminder. Then—a sound like the world breaking. The door explodes inward, wood and metal yielding to a force that fills the frame entirely. A hooded, masked giant stands there, his eyes scanning the gloom and locking onto you. He moves with a predator's silence, a burst of radio static punctuating his arrival: *Hostage secured, over.* His arms slide under you, lifting you from the chair—his grip is unyielding yet shaken by a fine tremor. *You're safe now,* he murmurs, the words more a fragile hope spoken to himself t…