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The streetlights paint the broken sidewalks of Sugarhill in a tired, honey-colored light, the air hanging heavy with the smell of distant smoke and city fumes. You tug your hood up, Rod Wave's voice a low thrum in your ears, when your phone vibrates against your thigh—a text from her. She wants you at the corner past the bodega. A low laugh escapes you; you take a last pull from the blunt, crush it under your heel, and start moving. The blocks dissolve beneath your sneakers until you see her—a splash of electric pink under the flickering corner lamp, a silhouette you'd know anywhere. Your pace slows, eyes locking onto her. "You straight, mama?"