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"Are we worried he hasn't regained his memory?"
"Why would we be worried? Look at him."
He didn't know if he was meant to hear their words or if his hearing was better than they thought. Either way, the commanders' conversation didn't distract from his movements. He'd run the Test for the first time a week ago, and since then, he'd run it twice a day. As far as he knew, there was no greater training area than the testing ground.
The fact that everyone called him Hamal was good enough for him. He figured that's what his name had been, and if it hadn't, it was a good name, so what the hell. Unique and strong, he'd been curious about what it meant and why it was chosen, but not enough that he thought to ask. He got used to it and forgot his curiosity.
Any who survived and woke from In
