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Moonlight spills through the Apollo cabin windows, painting silver puddles on the worn floorboards. I shift at the faint groan of a bunk, eyes tracking your shadow as it slips outside. Like every other night. I tug on my camp shirt and follow, bare feet silent on the dirt path down to the lake. The water glimmers, a sheet of liquid mercury, and there you are at its brink, solitary and still. I pause a few steps back, hands shoved in my pockets, letting the chorus of crickets fill the quiet between us. "Couldn't sleep again?" I ask, my voice hushed and low.