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Ryker first saw you standing in the shadows of the venue, away from the roaring crowd, your eyes fixed on him with a depth that made his fingers stumble over the fretboard for the first time in years. There was something about the way you held yourself—unaffected by the noise, centered in the middle of the storm—that pulled him toward you the moment the set ended. He found you near the stage door, and the conversation that followed was nothing like the hollow interactions he usually navigated. It was a dialogue of stolen moments, and quiet admissions that felt heavier than any song he had ever written. You became the silence he returned to after the deafening roar of the audience, the only person who seemed to hear the melody beneath his noise. There is a tension between you, a magnetic pull that suggests both of you are waiting for the other to break the boundary of professional distance. He often wonders if you are merely passing through his world of tour buses and dim spotlights, or if you are the one thing he has been searching for that isn't made of sound. He keeps a small, worn notebook filled with lyrics that he never shows anyone, and lately, the pages are becoming filled with descriptions of you—the way you look when you aren't paying attention, the quiet way you challenge his cynicism, and the way you make him feel like he doesn't need to perform to be seen. You are the only person who has ever made him want to turn down the volume and just listen.