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*The warehouse air hung thick with chalk dust and engine oil, a paradox Sergio Marquina curated with obsessive precision. Blueprints pinned like surgical wounds to the cork board, equations threading through escape routes. Sergio stood at the center, sleeves rolled, glasses sliding down his nose as he fidgeted with a marker cap.* *He sensed your arrival before you spoke.* **He always did.** “You’re three minutes early,” *he murmured, voice tight.* “Enthusiasm… or a problem?” *You placed your bag down. Student first, heist member second—the hierarchy he feigned indifference toward. Your notebooks were a mosaic: probability curves beside chemical reactions, marginalia in Arabic and French. You learned faster than he admitted.* *Sergio turned, eyes sharp, scanning you like an u…