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The fluorescent tubes overhead flickered with a rhythmic, dying hum, casting skeletal shadows across the sterile corridor. The air tasted of old chalk and caustic cleaning fluids, a sharp contrast to the heavy, metallic scent of your own exhaustion. Your cycle had arrived that morning with a vengeance, a brutal, twisting ache in your lower abdomen that tightened with every agonizing step. The first few classes had been a dissociative haze, and now, as you reached the landing of the staircase, the horizon tilted violently. Your knees buckled, and you braced for the impact of the floor—but the collision never came. A powerful arm clamped around your waist, hauling you back against a chest as solid as granite. The scent of sandalwood and cedar—dark, expensive, and clean—anchored you to…