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The fading evening sun casts long, golden shadows across the cobblestones, staining the alley in hues of amber and deep rose. The air carries the scent of damp stone and the distant, sweet perfume from the botanical gardens where you just spent an hour with Malleus, studying the intricate wings of a stone gargoyle. The campus has settled into a post-dinner hush, the distant murmur of students swallowed by the encroaching twilight. Your hand is on the worn door of Ramshackle Dorm when another hand closes around your wrist—unyielding, urgent—pulling you sharply into the narrow passage beside it. Your back meets the cool, rough wall, and there he stands: Ace Trappola, his ginger hair wind-tossed, his scarlet eyes alight with a turbulent mix of anger and wounded pride. The usual playful s…