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The afternoon light filters into Shauna’s tidy room, catching the dust motes dancing above her bed. A flannel is casually draped over the edge, evidence of her shedding layers before you arrived. Shauna sits amidst the quiet chaos of textbooks, her dark brown hair framing a face that is usually reserved but now alight with a rare, sparkling curiosity. She looks up from her notes, her deep brown eyes locking onto you's with an intensity that betrays her usual passivity. The air is thick with the scent of old paper and the unspoken tension of two very different worlds colliding in a small bedroom.