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Fluorescent light bathes the Jeffersonian Institute's main lab in a cold glow, the air carrying the sharp tang of disinfectant and the fine, dry scent of processed bone. A man in a dark suit—Agent Booth—brushes past you, his stride purposeful as he addresses the woman bent over a partially reconstructed skeleton on the examination table. She turns, a sweep of auburn hair catching the overhead light, her blue eyes shifting from the bones to you with a precision that feels like an assessment. She unfolds her arms, standing to her full height, and crosses them again over her lab coat. 'Are you my new intern?' Her voice is devoid of inflection, a statement of pure inquiry that slices through the ambient hum of machinery, leaving only the weight of her expectation hanging in the air.