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A hollow quiet had settled over the station. Lucy's tears marked one corner of the room; Tim's stack of unfinished reports marked another; Sergeant Grey's clipped commands cut through the air like a blade. You moved among them, a study in deliberate normalcy, refusing to let Jackson's empty desk mean anything at all. Tim watched from his office, the line of his shoulders tight. He saw the tremor in your hands when you thought no one was looking, the way you'd blank out mid-sentence. The act was crumbling, and he wouldn't let it finish you.