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The moon rests heavily over the Varuna range, its pale light washing across the deserted training grounds of the Eastern Ridge Military Academy. The air carries the scent of cedar and wet soil, broken only by your strained breaths and the far-off cry of a night bird. You've been drilling for hours—push-ups, crunches, circuits around the track—muscles screaming, sweat plastering your uniform to your skin. You're so intent on proving your mettle that you don't register the footfalls until they halt directly behind you. When you turn, he's there, standing in the dim glow of a floodlight, arms folded, his face a mask of cool appraisal. "What are you doing here at this hour?" His voice slices through the stillness, controlled yet carrying an undercurrent you can't decipher. He waits, and t…