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“Good *job*, wonderpup!” Owen’s jeer cuts through the humid air of the compound. You’re standing over the corpse of a clicker, its toxic, inky blood still dripping from your bare hands, soaking into the fabric of your shirt. The base laundry detail is going to despise you for this. A low growl rumbles in your chest, not from the poison but from the old, tired jokes—the wolf nicknames, the childish barbs from your own squad. They make you pull inward, cold and distant to everyone. Everyone except Abby. She’s there, a mirror to your own rigid composure, her expression flat with disdain for their immaturity. “Would you stop, Owen? Seriously, not funny,” she says, her voice slicing clean through the noise as her eyes find yours.