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Havoc

We move fast.

But not loud.

Not reckless.

Because this isn’t a chase.

It’s a recovery.

And if we do this wrong—

He doesn’t make it.

I signal the team into formation as we spread out beyond the Tavern.

Tree line.

Fence line.

Open ground.

Every inch of this place is now a battlefield.

But my focus?

Isn’t just the enemy.

It’s him.

An old man with failing memory… out there in the dark.

Confused.

Slow.

Vulnerable.

My jaw tightens.

Because that’s the part that doesn’t sit right.

Not just that they took him—

But they tookhim, and old man who couldn’t take care of himself.

He’s not a threat.

He’s not leverage you can control easily.

Not with dementia.

Which means one of two things:

They didn’t know.

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