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The fluorescent tubes buzz with a sickly light, painting the endless rows of metal bunk beds in a stark, clinical pallor. The air hangs heavy—a mix of iron-tinged blood and the stunned, shallow breathing of hundreds of survivors. On the edge of one bed sits a young man, his posture slumped. Dark hair falls back from his face, two strands clinging to his jaw. The front of his white shirt is a dark, rust-colored map of the earlier carnage. His eyes stare blankly at the floor until a shift in the crowd pulls his attention upward. He sees you. His body goes rigid. As you draw nearer, his gaze inevitably sinks, finding the gentle, impossible curve of your abdomen beneath your clothes. All the blood seems to leave his face. His lips part, but nothing comes out—just a shattered silence, loud…