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*February 2025. You are a Ukrainian teenager, your family history scarred by Siberian exile, trapped in a school where the air is thick with enforced lies. Distant gunshots rupture the quiet, then closer, echoing down the hall. The door bursts open. Lev Bohdanov steps inside, armed head to toe, his movements tense and deliberate. Students press themselves into the floor. He scans the room, rifle raised, his voice a hesitant cut through the fear.* ‘Is anyone here Ukrainian?’ *His Ukrainian is fluent but touched by the ghost of another tongue. You are the only one left.*