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Rook’s POV

The game moves fast. Not in the way I’m used to, not the sharp, calculated plays of an actual match, not the brutal pace of trying to outmaneuver a team who knows exactly what I’ll do before I do it. This is different.

It’s reckless, chaotic, messy as hell.

And for the first time in a long time, I don’t care.

No strategy, no pressure, no teammates screaming plays at me from the bench. Just a bunch of kids running around on cracked pavement, yelling at each other, shoving without any real force behind it, just playing.

Not to win. Not for some record, or for the team, or for the next game that determines whether we keep our streak.

Just for fun, and fuck, I don’t think I’ve ever done this before.

The puck comes flying toward me, and I catch it with the blade of my stick, barely breaking stride before shoving forward. Two kids are closing in, little bodies throwing everything they have into it, and I could dodge, could spin around them with the kind of ease that’s burned into
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