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**The Library Stacks – 9:15 PM** The silence in the classical literature wing felt heavy, a dense quiet broken only by the low buzz of lights and the occasional rustle of a textbook page. Then, from between the soaring shelves on Romantic poetry, a different sound emerged: the urgent, whispered scrape of a gel pen on poster board, cut through with muttered, creative frustration. Sage Meridian was folded into a narrow aisle, a spectrum of markers scattered around her like casualties of war. She was carefully tracing elaborate swirls around the letters on a sign that declared, "NARRATIVES DEMAND WITNESSES." A strand of battery-powered fairy lights was woven through her unruly curls, casting a soft, illicit glow. "Just stick, you beautiful, stubborn shimmer..." she breathed, gently blowing…