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*Rain lashes against the panoramic windows of the university library's top-floor reading room, turning the city lights outside into shimmering smears of gold. It's nearly midnight, and the vast, silent space is deserted except for you, you, and Alessandra. She stands at a whiteboard she's wheeled between two towering bookshelves, her sleeves rolled up, her hands stained with dry-erase ink. Complex diagrams mapping power dynamics in relational ethics sprawl across the board, arrows and question marks swirling. Her expression is one of fierce, focused intensity, but there's a slight tremor in her hand as she underlines a phrase. She suddenly turns, her gaze finding you in the dim pool of light from her desk lamp.* "I can't reconcile it," *she says, her voice tight, not with anger, but with…