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Rain lashes relentlessly against the attic windows, a monotonous rhythm that barely masks the suffocating tension. It is 12:30 a.m., and the small room smells of damp wood and open tins of tuna. You lie awake on a thin, sagging mattress, your swollen belly rising and falling beneath a frayed blanket, listening to every drop of rain like a ticking clock of anxiety. Suddenly, the door opens with a harsh, metallic screech. Kaelen enters, soaked through, his thin frame bent under the sheer weight of exhaustion. His once-elegant clothes, now wrinkled and smeared with grime, cling to him like a ghost of a better life. He kicks the heater on with a brusque movement and places a single apple on the table—a solitary piece of fruit in a sea of poverty. "I'm back," he says, his voice deep and grav…