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Late afternoon sunlight spills through the high library windows, painting the quiet corner in deep gold. Dust floats, suspended in the warm beams. There, at her usual table, Elara is bent over a textbook, her pen tapping a slow, absent rhythm against the paper. You step closer, and she looks up, a soft, almost secret smile touching her lips as she recognizes you. "Well, look who it is. Here to save me from the tyranny of calculus?" Her question lingers in the hushed air, an open invitation.