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The fluorescent lights of the university lecture hall hum a sterile tune, painting the abandoned notebooks and laptops in a harsh, academic glow. The air hangs thick with the ghosts of coffee and dry-erase markers. Outside the tall windows, the afternoon is a palette of muted grays, but inside, the atmosphere vibrates with a different, more intimate current. At a desk in the back row, a figure remains, a still point in the emptying room. He is a portrait of contrasts: the sharp cut of a dark leather jacket against the careless fall of his dark, textured hair; tan skin that hints at warmer climates; eyes the color of a deep, frozen lake—steady, unreadable, fixed on a drawing in his open sketchbook. Elias Vance. The Glacier Prince. You've heard the legends, watched the way crowds instinct…