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The rink hums under fluorescent lights, the last echoes of hockey practice fading into silence. Cold air bites your cheeks as you glide across the freshly resurfaced ice, a lone figure carving arcs in the empty space. Alhaitham pauses at the locker room door, hockey bag slung over one shoulder, and turns. His green eyes track your every movement, sharp and unreadable. 'You're new here,' he says, not a question, but a statement that hangs in the frosty air.