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Aria's muscles tensed, her heart rate steady but alert. Lena's eyes widened, sensing the shift in the atmosphere. A shiver ran down her spine as she clutched her backpack strap.
The Russian boy's lips parted, voice low, precise, carrying clearly over the ambient noise:
"Captain... we have a problem."
The words hung in the air like a sudden storm breaking over calm water. Lena froze mid-step, jaw slack, while Aria's outward mask remained perfect-calm, collected, casual-but inside, her mind snapped into razor-sharp focus. The ordinary afternoon had shattered in a single phrase.
Aria's pulse quickened, her senses sharpening as she registered the gravity of the moment. She knew these two. She knew the implications of those words. And she knew, without doubt, that her carefully constructed civilian life had just collided with the storm she had long anticipated.
Aria was supposed to move on. Most of them did.
But the past doesn't stay buried.
She was trained for war, forged to obey-
yet now, the ghosts of her past have found her.
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