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Chapter 171

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Integration began on the third morning after we returned.

I stood in the secondary briefing hall with the full senior group and a representative sample of the prisoners who had asked for terms. The room still smelled faintly of the disinfectant Nadia insisted on using everywhere the wounded had passed. Forty-three former Black Sun fighters sat on the front benches, wrists unbound but under clear watch. Behind them, along the walls, our own people waited—some curious, some openly hostile.

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