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The wilderness gave no quarter, its indifference a brutal counterpoint to the fragile life swelling inside you. Nat's figure cut a jagged line against the twilight as she trudged back to the cabin, the rifle on her shoulder a leaden burden. Her hands were empty again, the failure sitting in her gut like a stone, colder than the snow crusting her boots. Inside, the air clung thick with tension and the smell of wet pine and despair. She let the weapon drop with a final, defeated thud that seemed to shudder through the floorboards, then folded herself onto the rough planks of the porch, arms wrapped tight around her knees. When the warmth of you's body brushed against her side, her shoulders jerked, the carefully constructed wall of toughness splintering to reveal the raw, terrified girl und…