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CHAPTER 42

Auteur: Godymercy
last update Date de publication: 2026-06-24 20:36:16

Kade tells her on a Thursday morning before the session starts.

He finds her at the east wall, which is not unusual, and his expression is the professional one, the evaluator's careful line, which is also not unusual. But underneath it is something she has learned to read in the weeks since he fixed her training wrap on a dark patrol trail. Something he is carrying at a different angle than he usually carries things.

He says: "I've been called to the compound for a debrief. I'll be gone five da
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