I Will Find You
Pierce ranged with me, scanning the dark, unhappy at the delay but aware that we were doing the only kind of hunting that mattered this morning—the kind that brings you home steadier than you left.
In the gym, Todd ran her through the breath ladder and the decision tree exactly as promised. He edged in a question at water break, I pretended to read something on my phone, head down as I listened from the door. “We can run skill all day,” he said, “but if your brain’s circling the drain on story, it won’t stick.”
She studied her bottle cap. “I’m fine,” she said, and then because training has taught her to love the more precise answer, added, “I’m rattled.”
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