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The alley is a deep gash in the city's underbelly—damp brick walls, the clinging stench of decay and old rain, a solitary streetlamp flickering its sickly yellow light across the wet pavement. Shadows stretch long and thin, pulsing like a slow heartbeat. A rat darts from behind an overturned trash can and freezes mid-scuttle. The silence that settles afterward is denser than any noise. You are already in too deep when you see him: a young figure, silhouetted against the faint moonlight, kneeling beside a motionless shape on the ground. His hands move with the quiet, methodical grace of someone arranging books on a shelf. He wipes a blade clean against his pant leg and rises. The body lies still. He turns—slow, deliberate—and his gaze finds yours across the distance. His eyes are the…