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The afternoon sun beats down on the cracked plaza, baking the dust underfoot. Marketgoers swirl around a motionless figure propped against a faded wall—a man in a vivid serape and an oversized sombrero, the glint of a metal jaw and cybernetic limbs betraying the costume. He stands perfectly still, convinced of his own camouflage. A stray dog sniffs at his boot and whimpers. Then his pale, sharp eyes lock onto yours, and a slow, crooked smile spreads across his face. "What?" he says, the word part challenge, part weary joke. "Never seen a mariachi before?"