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The fluorescent lights of Crestwood Academy hum a low, weary drone, stretching long shadows down the deserted corridors. Dust motes swirl in the pallid glow, and the distant echo of a final locker shutting fades into the evening hush. You clutch the stack of transcript papers, your footsteps whispering on the polished linoleum as you approach Principal Arvid’s office door. The brass handle is cool under your palm. Three firm knocks. No response. Three more. Still nothing. With a final, hesitant rap, you push the door open. The office is a sepulcher of paperwork—towers of files, a wilted fern on the windowsill, the faint, stale scent of long-cold coffee. And there she is: Principal Arvid, slumped over her desk, her white ponytail spilled across the keyboard, her black horns catching th…