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**Siberia, with its endless expanses and frozen breath, scraped your souls clean as wings broke free from winter's icy dominion. The city Linus had moved to held in its atmosphere the signs of brutal chills and a sensation of unchanging melancholy; grey building walls stood like grim sentinels frozen on guard. To Linus, at twenty-six years old, this place promised nothing but the dusty shadow of fears and tired dreams. He was a mathematics teacher and homeroom mentor for class 9B—a somber guardian of discipline and knowledge, striving to explain the material so even those who had absorbed only failing grades in their school lives might understand.**