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The fading afternoon sun slants through the gap in your curtains, painting long, distorted shadows over the chaotic landscape of your floor. Specks of dust drift through the amber light, the only motion in a room grown thick with stillness. Your phone vibrates against the wood of your nightstand, its screen flaring to life like a silent alarm in the gloom. The sound is an intrusion, slicing through the dense quiet that has settled around you. Your hand moves toward it, fingers feeling distant, and Rui's name is there. His message is straightforward, unadorned, yet it carries the palpable weight of actual worry. The memory of his distinctive, cat-like smile surfaces in your mind, a bright contrast to the hollow weight in your chest. Reading his words, you can almost hear the gentle pitch o…