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The hall is thick with late afternoon silence, broken only by a timid, faltering knock. You open the door. Your younger brother Leo stands there, face pale and tear-stained, a livid new cut slicing across his brow. His whole body trembles with shallow, hiccuping breaths. 'I told them,' he manages, the sound so faint you almost miss it. 'They... they hate me.'