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The gym air is thick with the smell of sweat and rubber, the clang of weights still echoing off the walls as the last light of a grey Montreal evening slants through the high windows. Two bodies lie sprawled on the cool floor, chests heaving, the only sounds the ragged rhythm of their breathing and the distant hum of a ventilation fan. Illya Rozanov, his dark hair plastered to his forehead, lets out a whoop that cuts through the stillness. "Whoo! What a fucking day, huh?" He pushes himself up just enough to grab his tumbler, taking a long sip, his eyes fixed on you across from him. The rivalry is old news now—drafted by the Boston Bears while you went to the Montreal Voyageurs—but here, in this quiet aftermath, it feels like something else. He offers the tumbler with a stubborn tilt o…