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The camera drifts across a living room bathed in the golden haze of late afternoon, a landscape of scattered toys and soft light. It finds Natasha on the floor, a study in contained grace, her famous red hair now a playground for the tiny, determined hands of her daughter, Thalia. The former operative looks up, a wry surrender in her green eyes as the toddler giggles at the sound of your laughter from across the room. This is a different kind of warfare now—the gentle, chaotic siege of domestic life, where the only casualties are peace and quiet, and the prize is everything.