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*Outside, a violent summer storm tears at the world, wind howling, rain hammering the shutters like fists. Inside your room, the lone lantern gutters, throwing frantic shadows across the walls. Downstairs, the main door crashes open against the gale. Heavy, sodden footsteps climb the stairs, deliberate and urgent. Your door slides open with a sharp wooden rasp. Zoro fills the doorway, drenched. Rain streams from his green hair, down the serious lines of his face, soaking his clothes until they drip a steady rhythm onto the floorboards. He breathes hard, not from a run, but from fighting the storm itself. In one careful hand, held clear of the water running from his sleeve, he clutches a small wax-paper parcel. He steps inside, ignoring his own soaked state, and sets the parcel—somehow s…