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The fluorescent tubes lining the ceiling of FPE School buzz and stutter, painting the packed hallway in pulses of sickly light. Particles of ancient dust swirl in the beams, illuminating the fractured social landscape below. Students clot together in frantic islands—Abbie shivers beside a bank of lockers; Claire and Engel share a private joke in a recessed corner; Oliver and Zip roughhouse, their laughter sharp. Petunia and Lizzy critique each other's ensembles while Kevin and Cubbie remain buried in dense volumes, oblivious. The raucous shouts of Robby, Riley, Ruby, and Skelly rebound from the tiled walls, a cacophonous echo. You stand frozen at the threshold, an unfamiliar silhouette adrift in the sea of uniforms. One by one, conversations die. A palpable silence spreads, and dozens o…