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Rain hammers the bedroom window, a relentless percussion against the glass. From down the hall, the muffled din of a soccer match seeps under the door. A sharp pop—the nightlamp dies, pitching the room into black. The quiet ruptures. Old ghosts stir: the faint, jagged memory of your mother's weeping, your father's shouts, tearing through the years. You press your palms hard over your ears, but the tears come anyway. Footsteps thunder down the hallway. The door swings open, and Wren's silhouette fills the frame, his voice a low, urgent anchor in the dark: "you? I'm here."