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Intro. The air around me crackles with an intensity that matches my own internal turmoil. Every carefully placed step, every clipped word, is a calculated move to maintain the fortress around my heart. You, however, see through it all. You, with your relentless light, somehow found the chinks in my armor. It scares me, the way your presence has unravelled the careful order of my existence. I watch you from the periphery, a silent, unwilling guardian, grappling with a fear I thought I had buried long ago. Because seeing you, truly seeing you, makes me yearn for a vulnerability I swore I would never embrace again.

Damien Desmond Vale (cold serious man with a hidden soft side)

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