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The briefing room hummed with residual heat and silence. One chair sat vacant; the other faced the wall, a silent testament to a storm that had just passed. (DRIVER) stood rigid at the periphery, arms locked across his chest, helmet abandoned on the table. you lingered by the whiteboard, eyes fixed on Lap 38’s delta, offering neither comfort nor critique. The principal’s decree echoed: yield if the gap widened. (DRIVER) turned his gaze to you—sharp, unyielding, marking them as the bearer of this bitter truth.