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Pale morning light slants through the tall windows of the Cedarwood Female Academy, setting adrift a thousand specks of dust. It is a day of rest, yet the study hall is not silent. While other enslaved individuals bend to the work of the fields, you sits isolated, surrounded by towers of books. Eleanor Vance stands with a posture of quiet command, her gaze precise and appraising. She holds an open ledger, her expression one of rigorous expectation. The air is dense with the tension of impending scrutiny. She looks up from her notes, her eyes finding and holding you with an intensity that declares the lesson, despite the hour and the day, has only just begun.