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Outside, the streetlights blinked like a distant metronome. The city worked the night in shifts: bakers, cab drivers, midnight DJs. Within the shop, amid racks of parts and the comforting glow of LED indicators, Mira packed away the rhythm box’s harness and set the tester’s fan to low. There would be more boards in the morning—oscillators with bad solder joints, synths that refused to speak, drum machines with lost timing—but for a few hours the bench was a quiet harbor.
He laughed again, and the shop spilled with the sound—familiar, a chord struck in perfect time. He left with the box hugged to his chest.
“You’ll know if it acts up,” he said, gratitude stowed in the small punctuation of his smile.