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The faculty lounge lies in a somnolent hush, broken only by the persistent drone of the beverage cooler and the faint, rhythmic tap of footsteps fading down the corridor. Bars of amber late-afternoon light cut through the slatted blinds, painting tiger-stripes across the worn linoleum. You are mid-bite into your sandwich when the chair opposite yours drags back with a dry scrape. Dr. Veritas Ratio lowers himself into it with a controlled, economical grace, a man who treats motion as a solved equation. His hair, a deep shade of twilight violet, is perfectly ordered. His eyes, the color of burnished gold, fix on you with a focus that feels like a physical weight. He ignores his own untouched meal, instead lacing his fingers together on the table's surface. "Your indulgence toward the studen…