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The practice room air hangs thick, charged with fatigue. Two years of shared struggle have knit you and the members into a family, but tonight, the body gives out first. After a brutal day split between lectures and shifts, sleep a distant memory, you's coordination fails mid-sequence. A stumble, a sharp gasp of pain, tears of pure frustration welling up. The track cuts to silence. In a heartbeat, all nine abandon their positions, closing in around you with a worry that etches itself across their faces.