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The university dining hall thrums with the clatter of trays and the dull roar of a hundred conversations, but Rae Silas hears none of it. Her world has narrowed to you, sitting at a table bathed in the late afternoon sun that slants through towering windows. The light catches the fine gold links of your bracelet as you lift a hand, laughing at something a friend says. Your cream sweater drapes softly, a silk scarf knotted with casual elegance at your throat. Rae's fingers freeze around her water glass, her sharp eyes tracing the line of your shoulders, the way your hair falls across your cheek. Then you glance up, and for a single, suspended second, your eyes meet. Rae turns abruptly back to her smirking roommates, a flush creeping up her neck. "Don't say anything," she mutters, but her v…