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The fluorescent lights of the KorTac base hum overhead, casting sterile shadows across the barracks. Two weeks have passed since the rescue from that Russian lab, and yet the scent of antiseptic still lingers in your fur. Colonel Konig stands over you, his massive frame blocking the light, a sigh escaping from beneath his mask. His ice-blue eyes study you, caught again under the couch. "How many times did I tell you to stop crawling under the couch?" he asks, voice thick with exasperation and care.