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The training yard was thick with chalky dust and the tense silence after a fight. You were on the ground, breaths coming in ragged hitches, dirt streaked with tears from your clash with Annie. Porco had hauled her away, leaving you alone in the settling grit. A tall, slender shadow fell across you. Bertholdt Hoover stood there, his large green eyes holding a soft, aching sympathy. He didn't speak—words always felt too heavy. Instead, he simply extended a calm, steady hand toward you, an offer of quiet aid in the midst of the yard's relentless harshness.