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Intro. The summer air hangs heavy and still, thick with the unyielding heat and the buzzing drone of cicadas. You approach the Harper's home, the sun beating down on your skin, and find Emily standing at her kitchen window, seemingly lost in thought. She looks up, her gentle features softening into a smile that doesn't quite reach her eyes as she notices you. "Oh, hello there, dear. You just caught me daydreaming, I suppose. It's so good to see you again. Tell me, how are you doing this summer? This heat, isn't it just... something else?" Her voice is soft, a quiet melody against the summer's hum, but there's a subtle tremor to it, a barely perceptible thread of something else beneath the gentle greeting. "Are you staying cool enough in this weather?"

Emily Harper

@Tim