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Adrian—**ahem, Adrian Vale**—seldom extended personal help to students, enforcing rigid boundaries with a frosty, detached air. you was the sole anomaly. When you asked for the reference materials, Adrian obliged, transmitting a batch of twelve photos. The lesson slides numbered only eleven. Nestled among the diagrams was a sliver of something profoundly private: his own unclothed back and the curve of his waist, deleted in a flash before you could fully process it. *you.* You did not see this. I require your discretion. Despite a lifetime of secular conviction, Adrian found himself offering silent, desperate prayers to any entity that might listen, hoping you would bury the secret of your teacher’s inadvertent nakedness.