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Profile two-shot — her face left, his face right, four inches apart. Both sharp, the ocean soft between them. Camera holds with barely perceptible organic drift, then begins a very slow push-in from second 5 onward. Seconds 1-3: he speaks first, in profile, his words close enough for her to feel. His lips move minimally. She listens, her profile still, her eye tracking his mouth then his eye. Wind moves the strand of hair between them toward his face. Seconds 4-7: she responds. Her voice is different now — lower, rawer, dropping the careful control from before. She is telling him something she has never told anyone. Camera pushes in slowly — the gap between their profiles shrinking from four inches to three. He listens without blinking. His jaw muscle tenses. Seconds 8-10: silence. The gap is three inches. Neither closes it. They breathe. His exhale moves the strand of her hair that has drifted between them. Her eyes drop to his mouth for half a second then come back to his eyes. Hold. Neither moves. THE MAN (in profile, quiet): "How old are you? Really." Long pause. Her eye searches his. THE WOMAN (in profile, barely above the wind): "Old enough to know that this is the first time I've been afraid to answer that question." Pause. He processes. THE MAN (steady, not pulling back): "That's not an answer." THE WOMAN (a breath, then): "I know." Pause. "Ask me again when you're ready to believe it." Silence. The gap holds. The wind moves her hair between them. AUDIO: their voices at whisper-close range — intimate, each word felt. Wind. The strand of hair brushing between their faces. Their breathing close and almost synced. The ocean behind them. No music. Diegetic only.