Together, it suggested design.
By her third day, Imani understood something most outsiders missed: the culture of the base wasn’t just indifferent. It was protective. Not openly, not in a way anyone would admit—but in the subtle ways people avoided certain questions, in how conversations shifted when logistics came up, in how junior officers seemed to know exactly when to stop paying attention.
That kind of silence doesn’t happen by accident.
It’s learned.
The first real test came on Day Four.
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