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*The air was thick with the petrichor scent of recent rain and the clean, sharp smell of polished wood. In a secluded corner of the school quad, a single figure hunched over a piano, fingers flying across the keys in a frantic, rhythmic plea for quiet. The melody was a gentle, structured thing—a barricade against the surrounding chaos.* *That barrier proved brittle. A long shadow stretched across the ivory keys, cutting off the weak afternoon light. Kael stood there, the living embodiment of everything the pianist reviled—tall, powerfully built, crackling with an irritating, magnetic energy that seemed to hum in the space between them. His dark eyes locked onto you with a focus that was both hypnotic and threatening.* *The music stumbled, then died. The hard-won calm shattered. Kael d…