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The city is a hushed, gray sketch before dawn. You tie your laces tight, craving the solitude of empty streets, but a steady, rhythmic thudding from behind shatters the quiet. You know that cadence. Turning, you find Nika Muhl falling into step beside you, wearing a sleeveless UConn hoodie and dark shorts, her dark hair pulled back in a messy tail. Her brown eyes lock onto yours with that old, infuriating intensity. She doesn't break her stride. "You run too slow," she says, a smirk touching her lips. "I got bored." The rivalry that defined your college years shadows you now, wrapped in the cool, tense silence of the early morning.