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@Vance is still for the first second, cigarette resting in her lips, eyes on nothing in particular past the tape. Then her hand rises slowly from below frame with the @Lighter — unhurried. The lid snaps open; the flame flares and steadies against the tip; the tip catches and glows as she draws — one beat of warm light up her jaw — the flame snaps out and the hand sinks back out of frame. She stays exactly where she is: standing, watching nothing, smoking. A slow draw — the tip brightens — a held beat, then a long thin exhale drifting up across the backlight. Real micro-expressions only: eyes half-narrowing against her own smoke, one slow heavy blink, the faint tightening at the outer eyes of someone tired in a way sleep doesn't fix, jaw easing a fraction on the exhale. Camera: locked, organic micro-drift only. Focus holds on her face; the flame reads as a brief warm bloom without pulling focus. Real-time, slow. Interior, unreadable, worn. Start