Atriya had seen men torn open like discarded equipment.
He had endured pain that rewired the nervous system.
He had completed training most soldiers didn’t survive.
None of it shook him.
But when he hesitated —
when he couldn’t bring himself to humiliate a failed candidate —
that’s what unsettled him.
And he didn’t understand why.
Violence never bothered him. This did.
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