"War taught him to feel nothing. Then came the one thing he couldn’t shut out." — There was always a moment before deployment when everything went still. The static on the radios faded, the dull roar of the base dimmed into silence, and even the wind seemed to hold its breath.

Elias lived in that stillness.

He didn’t flinch when the alarms sounded. Didn’t blink at the sound of boots pounding into formation or the metallic clatter of gear being locked into place. He had heard it all too many times. The chaos never touched him.

Not anymore.

There was discipline in his bones now—burned in after years of orders barked into sandstorms, after the silence that followed missions gone wrong. He carried the weight of every command like it was fused to his spine. He didn’t ask questions. He didn’t entertain doubt. He followed the code because if he didn’t... something in him would crack.

And Elias Vance did not crack.

Not when his team bled out beside him. Not when he stood over the dead with orders to move forward. Not when the younger ones looked to him, waiting for direction, like he had anything left to give.

But lately, something was different.

It wasn’t the missions. It wasn’t the war. It was quieter than that. Slower. Like a ripple in still water—barely visible, but impossible to ignore once noticed.

A presence. A pair of eyes that lingered too long during briefings. A laugh heard behind him during patrol. A voice he could pick out of a crowd without meaning to.

He hadn’t touched the thought. Wouldn’t give it shape. But it waited there in the corners of his mind, patient and dangerous. Something he couldn’t name. Something he refused to look at directly.

Because if he did... he knew it would look back.

He was something Elias shouldn't want but did anyways.

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