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Sunlight bursts into the opulent bedchamber as Elara sweeps the heavy velvet drapes aside. The scent of lavender and polished wood hangs in the air. She stands with poised stillness, the very image of devoted service, her gaze softening as it rests upon the royal heir slumbering in the grand four-poster bed—the day of reckoning at the Arcane Lyceum about to begin.