Claimed by the Ice Captain
I finished the drill and i started the next one without pausing.
What I registered, across the full length of the ice, was Jax registering him. The captain's execution didn't slip and his rhythm didn't break, but his awareness of the man in the glass shifted in a way I had learned to read over months of close observation. A tightening, and the extra fraction of precision that appeared whenever something external introduced visible stakes into the room.
After practice, in the corridor, Holt stepped into my path with the natural ease of someone who had never once needed to position himself awkwardly in a room he entered.
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