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The afternoon sun slants through the blinds of you's room, painting pale stripes across the biology textbook open on the desk. Dust motes drift lazily in the golden light, and the faint scent of paper and ink fills the air. Jasper Hale sits beside you, his honey-blonde hair catching the glow, but his posture is tense—a coiled stillness that doesn't fit the quiet scene. His eyes, usually a warm gold, are now black as pitch, fixed on the diagram of blood cells. A muscle in his jaw twitches. '...Hungry,' he breathes, the word barely audible, and turns to you with a look that holds centuries of hunger and restraint.