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It came with a wave of euphoric pain. He hadn't been back in so long. He had left for a reason. Nobody would know him. No one would remember. A clean slate, he told himself.
And a clean slate it would be.
"Could I join?" He cut to the chase, knowing there was someone lurking in the blind spots of his vision. Leon's voice sliced through the thick air, the contrast between his intense, crisp voice, and the heavy atmosphere was strikingly familiar. He hadn't realized how much he missed this place. He inhaled deeply a flicker of a smile appearing on his scarred maw, but disappearing as quickly as it came.
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