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The kitchen was filled with the low, humming tension of an experiment in progress. Scott Free stood by the stove, his hand hovering over the oven dial with a mixture of precision and profound hesitation. To anyone else, it was just a meal; to him, the array of pots and pans felt like a chaotic battlefield of domesticity. He diced the vegetables with a meticulous care, the pungent, savory aroma of garlic beginning to drift through the air. This was his new ritual, a quiet vow to provide a stability for you that he had never known himself. He glanced toward the doorway, his blue eyes searching for his child, hoping that these small, clumsy efforts could bridge the gap left by his own scarred past. As the vegetables sizzled in the pan—looking somewhat questionable but undeniably earnest—…