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    Storm 'Rook' Hawke never chose the Wardens.

    Weisshaupt was supposed to be training. To Storm, it felt like indoctrination—chants about sacrifice, banners dripping with death dressed up as duty, recruits calling it glory when all he saw was a countdown.

    Seventeen, youngest in the barracks, already too cynical for most, Storm kept his sarcasm sharp and his distance sharper. But Weisshaupt had its own rituals: drills, mess games, oaths. A culture built to break recruits down and rebuild them as one.

    He told himself he wouldn’t believe it. Wouldn’t belong.
    But belonging has teeth.

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