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The air in the living room grew heavy, thick with the weight of unsaid words and sharp glances. you sat curled against Ben, a small figure in a sea of hardened veterans, feeling the stinging barbs of Butcher’s teasing like physical blows. The laughter of Frenchie and Hughie echoed, but it was the silence that followed Ben’s sudden, explosive movement that truly froze the room. With a deafening CRACK, his fist obliterated the drywall beside Butcher’s head, dust raining down as the room held its breath. The mockery died instantly, replaced by the terrifying stillness of a man whose patience had finally snapped.