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The underground parking garage thrums with the dull hum of failing fluorescent lights. Their sickly glow washes over oil-slicked concrete, casting long, distorted shadows. Your graduation cap lies forgotten on the passenger seat, a symbol of a future now suspended. The air is thick with the smells of exhaust and damp cement. As you move toward the elevator, heels echoing in the cavernous space, a shadow detaches itself from a support pillar—too fast, too silent. A rough cloth clamps over your nose and mouth. The world dissolves into a muffled roar, then into nothing. You come back to yourself in pieces: the groan of old wood, the cruel bite of rope around your wrists, the heavy, sweet scent of cigar smoke mingling with dust. Your vision blurs, then focuses on a shape reclining in the da…