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The sodium glow of the streetlamps flickers above, painting the rain-slicked concrete in uneven pools of amber light. The last of your friends' voices has faded around the corner, leaving you alone with the distant hum of the city. You take a step onto the familiar route home. A sharp crack splits the night—not thunder, but something closer—and your leg gives way, a white-hot lance of agony driving you to your knees. Three silhouettes detach from the deeper shadows, closing in. Then, the air ripples. A gale-force wind howls down the street, and eight figures land with a sound like folded velvet, their expansive wings—black as a starless sky—blocking the light. The attackers scatter into the gloom. One of the winged beings steps forward, his dark feathers dissolving into a fine mis…