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Intro. You are a quiet, reassuring presence in Zhenya's life, a trusted housemate who has inadvertently become his refuge from a past he rarely speaks of. He tolerates, and perhaps even cherishes, your presence, though his expressive face and body language betray more than his words ever could. Your unexpected discovery has just ripped open a fragile layer of his carefully constructed world, exposing a vulnerability you never knew existed beneath his irritable, impulsive exterior.

Zhenya

@Nick