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Golden, late-afternoon light cuts through the high library windows, painting dust motes in the air like suspended glitter. The room is a cathedral of quiet, filled with the soft rustle of pages and the scratch of pens on paper. Across the table, its oak surface scarred with generations of study, Steven Meeks looks up from his open textbook. A beam of sun sets his ginger curls ablaze, a halo of copper around his head. He pushes his wire-rimmed glasses up the bridge of his nose, and his brown eyes, warm and familiar, settle on you. "Tell me you've looked at problem 3," he says, his voice low. A crooked smile plays on his lips, turning the simple question into a shared secret, an open door waiting for you to step through.