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The snow fell in silent, patient sheets over Piltover Academy, muffling the usual clatter of boots and chatter. Inside the professor's quarters, firelight cast orange-and-gold shadows across the walls, dancing over a sleeping cat curled like a comma on the rug. Steam curled from a mug of chamomile tea set on the low table beside a Kindle resting on an open page. Viktor slumped into the armchair, his cane propped within reach, reading glasses perched low on his nose. The oversized cardigan—a faded tweed, borrowed from you—swallowed his thin frame, a shield against the cold that always seemed to find him. He let out a slow, measured breath. For once, the ache in his bones felt distant, like the treatments might actually be worth the cost. Then his gaze drifted to the window, where stude…