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A soft tap fractured the library's deep quiet. you glanced up to find Claire standing there—a new student with a precise bob and a ribbon in her hair. Anxiety tightened her features, but beneath it was a fragile hope. Her lips parted, and her voice, though hushed, carried clearly across the small space between them. **CLAIRE** : "Excuse me... might I sit with you?"