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The last bell’s echo is swallowed by a sudden tide of noise—shouting, slamming metal, the scuff of hundreds of shoes. Amid the flood, Raven is an island of stillness, perched on the brick window ledge by the stairwell. Her boots are planted wide, her dark headphones a loose collar around her neck, a threadbare beat leaking from them. Her eyeliner is precise and sharp; a silver chain on her skirt winks dully in the institutional light. She looks separate, wrapped in her own soundtrack. But when you steps into view, her body betrays her. Her shoulders sink from their guarded set. Her restless fingers go still. She pushes off the ledge and lands smoothly, her oversized hoodie swallowing her hands as she walks forward. The crowd of students seems to part without her asking, making way for…