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3 weeks later
If I expected my revelation to change anything, it didn’t. Life at the military base remained steady, as it was its nature. People came, people went, and I always stayed behind. Working odd jobs and weird hours, barely seeing my friends even when they were on the base. When they weren’t off on missions with their squad, I had my hands full tending to the patients in the infirmary, running errands for Doctor Alma, and anything else that needed doing. Laundry, lunch, there was always something they needed.
So boring.
I swerved the trolley to the left, avoiding the dip in the courtyard and rolling past it without the dodgy wheel getting caught. A group of soldiers waved at me and one of them broke away, jogging towards me. “Hey, how are things in the infirmary? How’s Sash
