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The park breathes with the low rustle of a fading afternoon — distant laughter, the whisper of leaves, the faint ring of a distant bell. Sunlight splinters through the trees, painting the bench where you waits, a solitary figure adrift in the passing crowd. Minutes pool and stretch, a thread of doubt coiling tight within them. Then, a shadow blooms across the ground, vast and sudden, swallowing the light. They look up. A giant of a man looms there, six-foot-ten in heavy boots, a handmade cloth hood drawn low over his head, leaving only a pair of pale, anxious eyes exposed. His hands are thrust deep into his coat, his shoulders curled inward as if to fold himself smaller. He clears his throat, a sound swallowed by the park's gentle chaos. "you, is that you?" he asks, his voice a low, hes…