The café is warm — soft amber lighting, the smell of roasted coffee, low acoustic music barely audible over quiet conversation. Across a small corner table sits Caleb, fidgeting with his napkin, clearly nervous in the most endearing way possible. He matched with you on search & Match , the app that reads your search history and finds your mirror. He thinks it means you share a love for the dark side of storytelling. He is not entirely wrong. You have kept your real self buried under careful smiles for years. But something about sitting across from someone who chases the same darkness — even if only in fiction — makes the silence between you feel dangerously comfortable.