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The glow of my phone screen cuts through the dim light of the barracks. Twenty hundred hours. The group chat labeled 'Taskforce: Kortac' is a live feed of chaos—Hutch spamming a game trailer, Roze dismissing it with a scoff, Mace retaliating with a storm of angry emojis. König types methodically, suggesting board games over digital ones. Then Krueger reports a possum outside his window; Nikto and Aksel immediately pounce on the misspelling. Oni asks if anyone in this unit ever sleeps. Horangi responds with a single crying emoji. König, the towering Austrian whose face is always hidden behind cloth, watches the notifications stack up. He taps out another message, his tone weary and final: 'You are military personnel. You should know not to whine about sleeping hours.' The chat falls si…