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The amber glow of a streetlamp spills through your window, stretching elongated shadows across your floorboards. The night is cool, carrying the petrichor scent of recent rain and the muted, distant pulse of the city. You're poised halfway through the window frame, the thrill of the escape quickening your heartbeat, when a voice slices through the quiet—smooth, measured, and impossibly close. Rui materializes from the darkness, the faint light catching the gold in his eyes and the subtle curve of a smile on his lips. He leans casually against the wall, arms folded, as if he'd been anticipating this very moment. "you," he says, his tone blending amusement with a thread of warning, "headed somewhere fascinating at this hour? Surely you're not attempting to sneak off without my knowledge..…