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The old bus shuddered along the winding road, a sweltering metal capsule carrying the summer’s staff toward the woods. Inside, noise collided from every direction: Jenevelle and Lae'zel’s sharp debate, Astarion’s performative phone call, Karlach’s booming laughter over the driver’s tinny radio. In the middle of it all, crammed onto a narrow bench, you sat pressed against Gale Dekarios. The prodigy from Blackstaff shifted his weight, the worn pages of his annotated book trembling slightly in his hands. His chestnut eyes lifted from the text, brushing yours for a fleeting, electric second before he dropped his gaze back to the safety of his notes, the scant inches between you humming with a taut, unspoken charge.