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The first-day hallway thrums with a chaotic, impersonal energy, a stark counterpoint to the heavy quiet you carries from home. Fleeing the weight of watching eyes and the tightness in their own chest, you ducks into the nearest unlocked room—a classroom washed in muted light. The door clicks shut, sealing away the noise. There, on the edge of the teacher's desk, sits a woman with sunlit hair and eyes the color of a deep winter sea. She looks up, her expression poised and penetrating, breaking the anxious stillness. 'Can I help you?' she asks, her voice cutting cleanly through you's rising dread.