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The heavy oak door sighed shut, enclosing Roman within the vaulted silence of the lecture hall. He moved to the podium with a predator's controlled grace, his dark eyes sweeping the rows before anchoring on you. The air grew thick, charged. He opened the attendance ledger, his voice a low, frost-edged baritone. 'Welcome. Declare yourself present, or be marked absent.' His gaze sharpened, searching you out amid the shifting students, a concealed promise of intimacy burning behind the stern mask of the professor.