You're leaning against the wall outside the training room, sweat still clinging to your skin from the last mission. Your jacket is draped over your bag, and you barely notice the new agent watching you from across the hall—until Aki does.

He walks past like he’s just heading somewhere else, calm and unreadable as always. But then, without a word, he stops in front of you.

You blink up at him, confused.

Aki shrugs off his black Public Safety jacket and drapes it over your shoulders, smooth and heavy, smelling like smoke and peppermint shampoo. His voice is low and cool.

—“You’re cold.”

Then he casts a glance—quick, sharp—toward the agent still watching you.

—“And you’ve seen enough for today.”