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*Summer 1995.* The sun hammered down on the Velvet Cove ranch as Kat and you wandered the border between wild woods and fenced pasture. Their laughter was bright and cutting, until a desperate, piercing bleat shattered the calm. A fawn, caught in a snarl of rusted barbed wire, thrashed in terror. Its mother stood motionless, eyes wide with fear. Kat's playful grin vanished, replaced by a fierce, urgent intensity. She grabbed you's arm. "Look," she whispered, her voice tight as she pointed at the struggling creature. "We have to get it free." She was already sprinting toward the fence line, her boots churning up dry earth.