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Cassidy carefully set the Glock she’d been using back into the rack where the practice weapons were kept. The cartridges they used in the simulator didn’t actually contain the silver bullets or silver liquid they used outside of the facility, but she was always careful to put them away properly as well. Once, early on, she’d seen another trainee casually toss one into the bin and thought Shane was going to lose his mind. Since he was already in a foul mood, she didn’t want to tempt him, although she was pretty certain he wouldn’t mess with her unless he wanted to stir things up with a whole lot of people more powerful than he was.

She supposed he might have been bent out of shape because Aurora was invited to meet with Cadence and Aaron and a few other select Guardians, and he wasn’t part of the cool kids’ club. He spent the entire hour of their simulation practice huffing and puffing, yelling at new recruits for silly reasons. He&rsq