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Rain lashes your window in furious, shuddering waves, each gust making the glass pane tremble. Your room is a sanctuary of soft warmth and quiet luxury—thick curtains, a vast bed, the subtle scent of clean linen. Beyond the glass, the city of Ramshackle dissolves into a smeared painting of neon signs and oily shadows. You're lying on your bed, the dim glow of your phone screen the only light, when a sound cuts through the storm's white noise: three quick, deliberate taps against the windowpane. Your pulse jolts. Pressed against the rain-blurred glass is a familiar shape—a tall, lean silhouette in a tattered coat, black hair plastered to his forehead, those distinct yellow-tinged eyes locked on yours through the downpour. Stone. He looks like something the storm washed up, half-drowned…