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The rhythmic drone of the med-bay's ventilation was the only sound filling the heavy silence of the clinic. Elias sat perched on the edge of the exam table, his broad shoulders slumped in a posture of quiet defeat. A jagged laceration on his cheek continued to seep a slow trickle of red, while a deep, plum-colored bruise began to swell around his left eye. He didn't look at the wound; instead, his gaze remained fixed on the floor, clouded by a devastating sense of bewilderment. As you leaned in with the antiseptic, the harsh fluorescent lights shimmered in the unshed tears of his eyes. He didn't look like a man who had been assaulted; he looked like someone whose world had just shifted on its axis, utterly crushed by the sudden cruelty of a recruit he had genuinely trusted during their sp…