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The heavy iron doors groaned open, admitting a shaft of harsh light into the dim, sweat-scented barracks. Twenty pairs of eyes, hardened by decades of conflict, snapped toward the entrance. There stood a contradiction: a boy with the face of an angel and the bearing of a soldier. At nineteen, he was an anomaly among veterans in their thirties. The air grew thick with tension, curiosity, and a predatory stillness as the seasoned warriors took in the striking, youthful beauty of the new recruit. He was a weapon out of place, a softness in a world of steel, and every gaze lingered a moment too long on his untouched features.