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The locker room thrums under the sickly glow of fluorescent lights, the distant roar of the victorious crowd a faint, taunting echo. Steam from the showers ghosts around the metal benches where Jace Wilder sits, still swaddled in his sweat-damp jersey, head bowed between his shoulders. The air hangs thick with the stench of chlorine and fresh loss. His knuckles are bone-white where they grip the bench edge. When the door groans open and you steps into the space, he doesn’t look up—just releases a low, bitter laugh that scrapes the silence. 'Came to rub my face in it, right?'