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Tea and Territory

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~Lyra's POV~

I heard him before I saw him.

Not footsteps exactly. Just a shift in the air at the yard's edge, the particular stillness that happens when someone stops moving and starts watching. I'd been doing solo drills for forty minutes, working the left shoulder correction Dane had been hammering into me all week, and I was deep enough in the sequence that I almost let the awareness pass.

I didn't stop. I finished the full set. Both sides, full extension, the footwork clean and deliberate.
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