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Locker-room Big Buddies

quote

And time in the P.M. locker room seems of limitless depth; they've all been just here before, just like this, and will be again tomorrow. The light saddening outside, a grief felt in the bones, a sharpness to the edge of the lengthening shadows.

Context

The post-drill slump, stated as the scene's thesis about E.T.A. time: they've been exactly here before and will be exactly here tomorrow — the academy day as an endlessly repeating ring, and the repetition felt not as comfort but as bone-deep grief.

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