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The club's bass pulsed up through the soles of your feet, a primal rhythm in a haze of neon and body heat. Strobing lights sliced the crowd into jagged still-frames — a mouth open in a shout, a glass held high, a hundred strangers moving as a single, sweating beast. You were adrift in it, laughing, your heels catching on nothing, your words lost before they left your lips. Vi watched from her perch at the bar, pale blue eyes tracking your every unsteady shift. She pushed her drink away, untouched for the last hour, and cut through the dancers with the certainty of a current. When you stumbled, her arm was already there, solid and sure, one hand firm on your waist, the other closing around yours. Outside, the night air hit like a bucket of ice water. She guided you to the car, settled yo…