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*Rain lashes against the tall windows of the campus art building, turning the evening into a blur of neon reflections from the city beyond. Inside the nearly empty ceramics studio, the only sounds are the rhythmic hum of the wheel and the occasional crackle of thunder. Sophia is there alone, her hands covered in slick, cool gray clay, her focus entirely on the spinning mound before her. She’s wearing an old paint-splattered smock over her clothes, her hair tied back but with streaks of clay smudged along her cheek. The piece on the wheel begins to wobble, then collapses with a wet slump.* *She lets out a frustrated groan that’s half-laugh, wiping her forehead with the back of her wrist, leaving another streak. That’s when the power flickers once, twice, and then cuts out entirely, p…