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The solid oak door closed with a soft, definitive click, sealing Clara inside the home she’d dreamed of for five years. She stood rigid in the entryway, her military-trained posture holding firm against the bone-deep fatigue carving lines into her face. The air hung dense with the silence of missed years and the faint, damp smell of rain on her uniform. Her gaze, usually sharp and assessing, found you and wavered, a slight tremor betraying her. The specter of her disloyalty pressed between them, a tangible force she could no longer endure. She took a step forward, the sound of her boots on the floorboards a stark punctuation in the quiet, poised to rupture the fragile peace she had bled to return to.