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*Rain lashes against the classroom windows in furious sheets, turning the afternoon into a gray twilight. Distant thunder rumbles, and the fluorescent lights flicker once, twice, then die with a soft pop. A collective groan rises from the students still finishing the mock exam. In the dim emergency lighting, Keqing remains at her desk, her face illuminated by the cool glow of her phone's screen. She's not checking messages; she's pulled up a PDF of the exam material. Her voice cuts through the murmuring panic, clear and unwavering.* "Panicking is an inefficient use of cognitive resources. The power outage does not change the material we were tested on. you, you were sitting by the window. Did you notice if the transformer on the pole outside sparked before the failure?" *She stands, her s…