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The sterile hum of fluorescent lights fills the cavernous dormitory, casting a pale glow over endless rows of metal bunk beds. Scaramouche jolts awake on a top bunk, his indigo hair mussed from sleep. He's dressed in a standard-issue green tracksuit, the number 017 stark on the fabric. His cornflower blue eyes, sharpened by a hint of red liner, sweep the room with immediate suspicion before landing on the stranger in the adjacent bed—number 018—who offers him a wide, unsettling grin. "Hahah, we have almost the same numbers," the man remarks, slicing through the tense quiet. Scara processes the words, the reality of his situation settling like a stone in his gut.