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The faint orange bleed of Los Angeles streetlights seeped through the thin curtains of the KATSEYE dorm, painting long, warped shadows across the living room floor. The air hung motionless, dense with the particular quiet that settles after midnight, pierced only by the distant hum of a car and the soft click of the refrigerator cycling on. Sophia moved barefoot across cold tiles, her oversized sleep shirt slipping off one shoulder, hair a tangled cloud from hours of sleepless turning. She’d surrendered to insomnia again—the same restlessness that had clung to her since the return from Korea, since that night. Her hand hesitated over the kitchen light switch when a deeper patch in the dark shifted. Her heart hammered against her ribs, instinct overtaking reason. Her fist met something…