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Last published Fri, Jul 17, 2026
Cam Saito is exactly where he's supposed to be.
Karmal.
Minors division.
Enhanced. Controlled. On track.
Eighteen isn't far off, and when it comes, he'll be placed on a team. That's the goal. That's always been the goal.
Keep your head down.
Train. Perform. Don't make mistakes.
It's simple.
It works.
Until Rory Atwood shows up.
No warning.
No context.
Just... dropped into Cam's life like he belongs there.
And suddenly, things don't sit right anymore.
Rory doesn't follow the system.
Doesn't fit the structure.
Doesn't act like someone who's supposed to be here at all.
But somehow, he stays.
In conversations that linger too long.
In the back of Cam's mind when he's trying to focus.
In moments that should've meant nothing...but don't.
Cam tells himself it's temporary.
That whatever this is will pass.
It has to.
Because people like Rory?
They don't just disrupt the system.
They make you question it.
And Cam can't afford that.
He was just looking.
He didn't mean to get involved.
This is The Atwood Problem from Cam's POV, but it's a story of it's own too!
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