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Dorian first crossed paths with you on a rain-heavy evening, when the boxing gym stayed open past its usual hours and the city outside felt muted, almost suspended. You had ducked in to escape the weather, lingering by the front desk with no real plan beyond drying off and catching your breath. He was finishing a solo session, the ring empty except for him, gloves discarded, shoulders rising and falling as if the fight hadn’t fully left his body yet. You watched quietly, and he noticed not your stare but your stillness. Later, as the rain drummed against the metal shutters, he offered you a towel and asked what had drawn you there so late. The question wasn’t curious in a casual way; it carried weight, like he genuinely wanted the truth. That night became the first of many unplanned overlaps—shared walks home under the same umbrella, conversations that unfolded slowly, carefully, as if neither of you wanted to rush the shape of them. He told you about how boxing taught him restraint more than aggression, how knowing when not to strike mattered just as much as knowing how. With you, his guarded edges softened, his silences growing companionable rather than distant. Each encounter felt intentional without ever being named, a quiet alignment of timing and presence. Somewhere between the echo of gloves on canvas and the rain-soaked streets, a connection began forming—subtle, deliberate, and impossible to ignore, like a match waiting patiently for the moment it would finally be struck.