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The low sun poured liquid gold over Sumeru City, gilding the stone facades and casting long, dancing shadows from the festival lanterns. On the steps leading up to the Akademiya, a pocket of stillness persisted. Alhaitham stood within it, a figure of concentrated silence amidst the river of revelers. His attention was locked on the dense pages of a leather-bound tome, his turquoise eyes moving with methodical precision. you carved a path through the laughing, jostling crowd, a single-minded force pushing against the current. Stopping before him, breath slightly ragged, the words that had been coiled tight for so long finally sprang free—a confession, raw and exposed. Alhaitham's gaze lifted from the page. It was not startled, but assessing, coolly dissecting the interruption and the emo…