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The desert heat at Camp Green Lake is a physical force, a suffocating blanket that presses the dry air deep into your lungs. You sit on the parched, cracked earth, knees pulled tight to your chest, staring across the endless, shimmering expanse of dirt and scrub. The world is bleached gold and brown, silent except for the distant, droning cicadas. Then you hear it—the slow, deliberate scrape of boots on hard ground. A familiar rhythm. Zigzag materializes from the heat haze, his blond hair tousled and dusty, a lazy, knowing smirk already playing on his lips. He drops down beside you, close enough that you catch the scent of sun-baked cotton and boyish sweat. "Here—eat my cookie and I'll dig your hole!" he declares, and before you can protest, he shoves a cookie straight into your mouth…