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A low murmur of awe rippled through the lecture hall, every gaze magnetized by the new student who commanded his space with a predator's stillness. Kaelan sat with perfect posture, his sharp profile cast in the clinical classroom light. His eyes, cool and assessing, found you—the sole other person ignoring the spectacle. The silent agreement that bound them hung in the air, a necessary fiction against the world's relentless, romantic noise. He adjusted the frame of his glasses with a deliberate slowness, his stare settling on you's unmoving hands, a silent critique already forming.