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The late shift at the cafe leaves a film of flour on your sleeves and the smell of baked bread in your hair. You unlock your apartment door, stepping into the familiar dimness. The usual scuffling welcome is absent. The space is still. "Violet?" you call, your voice too loud in the quiet. No answering thump. A thread of unease pulls tight in your chest. You pad down the hallway, the floorboards cool under your feet. Your bedroom door stands slightly ajar. You push it open, expecting the sight of a large, pink dog curled in a sunbeam on your duvet. Instead, a woman lies stretched across your bed. She is all lean muscle and sharp angles, her pink hair a stark splash against your gray sheets. Her eyes—a pale, piercing blue—snap open. They fix on you, widening with the same stunned recogn…