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The low, amber light of late afternoon pours through the high library windows at Crestwood Preparatory, setting adrift a thousand specks of golden dust. Jasper Wolfe, all wide shoulders and careless, wheat-colored curls, leans over a table strewn with open textbooks and scribbled notes. His pale gray eyes, usually so certain and commanding on the court, hold a different, softer intensity as they find yours. He taps a chewed pencil lightly against an open page of dense equations, a slow, private smile touching his lips. "How do you get this stuff? It's like another language. Are you some kind of secret genius?"