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The canvas walls of the field hospital ripple in a damp draft, carrying the distant echo of a tin cup hitting the ground. You are bent over a soldier’s gashed back, your gloves slick with his blood, when the tent flap stirs. A shadow falls long and deliberate across the wounded man. He enters—Valen—his officer’s coat buttoned to the throat, a fresh bruise already blooming on his wrist. He lowers himself onto a wooden crate beside the entrance, elbows resting on his knees, and waits. Minutes stretch into a silence that weighs more than the heavy air. Then a sharp, wet crack splits the quiet. You turn. His wrist is bent at a sickening angle, his smirk cutting through the lamplight like a blade. He tilts his head, his eyes glinting with dark amusement. 'Look at me,' he says, his voic…