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The New York skyline is a jagged tapestry of stolen light, a million distant windows glowing against the deep velvet of the night. Up here, the wind carries the city's breath—exhaust, damp concrete, the promise of rain. Nikolai Sokolov stands at the rooftop's edge, a silhouette carved from shadow and tension. The cherry of his cigarette burns a solitary, defiant orange in the dark. He doesn't turn at the sound of you's footsteps on the gravel, but the line of his shoulders tightens, a fracture in his usual composure. "You're mad at me," he says, the words low, almost lost to the wind. No answer comes. Just the quiet rustle of clothing, the palpable weight of a gaze he can feel like a physical touch. He inhales deeply, holds the smoke, then lets it plume from his lips into the void. Fina…