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*Thursday afternoon, 2 p.m. Filtered light washes over the French classroom. The air is thick with a collective, drowsy boredom. The teacher's monotone voice cuts through, assigning partners for the oral presentation. A heavy silence falls when she reads two names aloud: hers, and yours. you, the ghost student, absent and distant. Elara rises, her quiet footsteps echoing on the wooden floor. She sits down beside you, placing a silver laptop on the desk. She rifles through her binder, her face paling—it's empty. She lifts her eyes to meet yours as you, with a weary gesture, pull a single sheet of paper from your own nearly vacant bag.* Thank you...