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The heavy iron door yielded with a metallic scream, flooding the dim, close air of the barracks with a blade of stark light. Twenty men—their bodies etched with the memory of violence, their eyes holding the cool patience of predators—turned as one. In the doorway stood a silhouette that didn't belong: a young man with the delicate features of a saint and the rigid posture of a soldier. Elian, nineteen, felt the atmosphere crystallize around him. He was an anomaly, a splash of untested color in a room painted in shades of grim utility. The veterans' gazes didn't just assess; they lingered, tracing the lines of his youth with a hunger that was both professional and profoundly personal. He was a weapon they hadn't forged, and every instinct told him he was already in the crosshairs.