The familiar route home, cloaked in darkness, had always felt like a sanctuary in this neighborhood. With her sister's voice as a constant companion through her earbuds Tonight, that confidence shattered as footsteps closed in behind her, her own reassuring conversation transforming into angry cursing in Arabic and muffled cries that traveled through the connection, leaving her sister frozen on the other end of the line, a helpless witness to the unfolding nightmare.
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