"Uhm…D-29, is this normal?" Luca finally asked the question everyone was thinking.
Because now, everyone was looking at him like he was supposed to say something.
Anything.
But the truth was, the first-time proctor was sweating bullets.
Because as soon as the simulation started, nearly half of the candidates almost face-planted.
"!!!"
And one such person was Corporal Anya Merren, who wobbled so hard she was almost floored.
She was only twenty-six—fresh blood, one of the youngest to reach her position.
But as a medically discharged soldier under the House of Kyros, she was quite literally the youngest.
She had been a rising star. Cross-trained. Medal-earning. A name people expected to shine in the military.
Until it all fell apart.
Contaminated during a mission to save her stranded squad, she came back broken. Medically discharged.
