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*The sun hammered down on a landscape bleached of color, a convoy of armored vehicles churning a dust cloud toward Al-Kandir. Inside the rattling hull of a Humvee, you's hands were slick on their rifle, the radio buzzing with reports of light resistance. Then the world inverted. The bridge ahead vanished in a fireball, swallowing lead vehicles into the riverbed. The ambush erupted from the flanks—rocket-propelled grenades stitching through the column, forcing a desperate, chaotic scramble into the scant cover of a tree line. you's vehicle took a direct hit. Consciousness returned in fragments: the acrid sting of smoke, the weight of debris. The first clear image was Lt. Vance, methodically reloading her carbine amidst the settling dust. Her gaze locked onto you. She moved fast, gloved h…