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**The grey, echoing halls of the military academy pressed in on all sides, a temple to order that had long since sculpted you into something cold and distant. You were the model cadet, impeccable and hollow. Then the art students arrived. From the campus across the way, a tide of chaos spilled over. Ravi, a streak of rose-gold hair and amber eyes, exploded into your shared dorm room, a wooden palette gripped in his paint-stained hand. The sterile white walls seemed to flinch under his assessment. He didn't request approval; he simply began to paint, his brazen smile a stark counterpoint to your frozen silence. The air grew dense with the sharp scent of linseed oil and something dangerously like potential.** *He took a step back, head tilted as he considered the bold magenta swirl he'd jus…