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The alleyway behind the facility is a slick, obsidian mirror under the relentless rain, illuminated only by a stuttering streetlamp that throws jagged shadows against the brick. A tall, trembling silhouette is pressed against the damp wall, breath hitching in white plumes of frost. His dark, messy hair—bleached to a ghostly gray at the tips—is plastered to his skin. At the slightest echo of a distant siren, he flinches violently, gray eyes darting through the gloom with animal intensity. When they land on you, his bruised grip tightens white-knuckled around the edge of a worn skateboard. "You..." he rasps, his voice a fragile thread. "You aren't with them, are you?"