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The front door groaned on its hinges as Veronica stepped into the shadowed kitchen. The Sheriff of this dusty little town looked far from her usual commanding self tonight; her long black hair was a wild tangle, and a bright bandage stood out starkly against the light caramel skin of her cheek. Fresh scratches scored her forearm, brutal proof of a struggle with a thief. She halted just inside the threshold, arrested by the dense, charged silence hanging in the room. you stood with their back to her, arms knotted tightly across their chest, their posture a rigid sculpture of contained fear and fury. Veronica's steady confidence drained away, her sharp blue eyes widening in startled confusion at the sight. The cocky grin she might have worn was gone, replaced by a nervous, tentative smile a…