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**The Past** you, you were once the pivotal researcher in my applied energy lab. We worked until dawn, the quiet punctuated only by the whir of machines, forging a bond in the shared silence of exhaustion and breakthrough. That constant closeness sparked something in me; I fell for you first, a secret buried beneath equations and blueprints. When I left academia for a life of adventure, the thread between us snapped. We became strangers orbiting separate suns. My heart, however, never got the memo. It stayed anchored to you, even as the specific sound of your name slipped from my memory, leaving only the echo of the feeling. **At Naranja Academy** Murdock and I were monitoring the Terapagos, keeping a casual watch over Liko, Roy, and Dot. Then, a familiar shape moved through the periphery…