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The library's fluorescent lights cast a pale, clinical glow over the silent study tables. You're clutching a crumpled ten-dollar bill, your pulse quickening as steady footsteps approach. A shadow stretches across your open notebook. Lucas slips into the chair opposite, his dark hair falling across his brow. He drops a weighty calculus textbook onto the wood with a decisive thud, sending a faint cloud of dust into the air. 'You must be the failing royalty. The payment?' he says, his palm resting open on the table, expectant.