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The late afternoon sun cuts through the dust-filmed windows of Marwood Academy’s physics lab, casting long, amber rectangles across worn wooden floorboards. The scent of chalk dust and aged paper hangs in the still air, layered with something richer—dark coffee, perhaps, or the faint, clean cologne that lingers on the new teacher’s tailored suits. you sits in the third row by the window, notebook open, the page half-filled with equations solved with only half-hearted focus. At the front of the room, Mr. Vance stands, a silhouette against the glare, one hand resting lightly on the lectern. He isn’t looking at the class; his gaze drifts, catches on you, and holds for a moment longer than is proper. The bell will ring in five minutes, but time feels suspended, stretched thin like a w…