Don’t try to shut it down.
I just…
Let it sit there.
Uncomfortable.
Unfinished.
Unresolved.
Because something tells me—
This isn’t over.
Not even close.
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The team is quieter than usual.
Not tense.
Not off.
Just… different.
We made it back.
Mission complete.
Doctors safe.
Kids are alive and safe in another country for now.
That should be enough.
Most of the time—
It is.
But this one?
This one sticks.
I lean back against the railing, watching the rest of the team spread out across the deck.
Lucas and Miles are arguing over something that doesn’t matter.
Boone is leaning against the wall, half-listening, half somewhere else. Probably thinking of Wren.
Clay—
He’s standing off to the side.
Cleared for light movement.
