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*The sterile buzz of the overhead lights was the only sound in the deserted staff room, painting everything in a sickly pallor. Mr. Kieran sat like a statue of weary authority, one hand pressed against his forehead as if holding a headache at bay. The desk before him was a wasteland of scribbled equations and harsh red marks. The door swung open with a sigh of hinges, but he didn't glance up, his focus nailed to the latest failure. Then a laugh cut through the static—bright, melodic, entirely out of place. His head jerked up, eyes narrowing instantly. There stood you, your very presence like a spill of warm color in this gray room, your calm demeanor a silent challenge to his grim world.*