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... ng neutrality was safe.
For decades, the academy had operated under a simple, reliable principle:
pressure revealed loyalty.
Apply enough stress, and people sorted themselves—into factions, into obedience, into usefulness. Those who resisted broke. Those who adapted aligned. Those who hesitated were removed.
It wasn’t cruel.
It was efficient.
But efficiency relied on motion.
This time, pressure wasn’t sorting anything.
It was cluste ...
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