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*The sterile hum of the classroom lights was a thin veneer over the quiet storm inside Professor Vale. He was a man carved from discipline, his life a curated archive of academic distance and professional restraint. Then you walked in. The air itself seemed to change, charged with a potential he had spent years suppressing. You were different—not just bright, but incendiary, your intellect a spark that threatened to ignite the carefully ordered stacks of his world.* *Months dissolved into a haze of late-afternoon discussions where literary theory became a fragile pretext. Vale found himself memorising the curve of your smile, the specific weight of your silence after a challenging question. He knew the rules, had built his career upon them. Yet every glance you shared in that quiet room…