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The fluorescent lights of Elmswood Academy buzzed faintly overhead, spilling a clinical white across the scuffed marble floors—fresh scars from the recent turmoil. A charged silence had settled, thick with the ghost of screams and shoving bodies. Students huddled in whispering groups, their glances stealing toward the center of the disturbance where Alistair Vance stood, a tall, immovable figure in a suit that was now less than perfect. His platinum hair gleamed under the harsh light as he held an unconscious girl cradled against his chest, her stillness a stark counterpoint to his rigid composure. Down the hall, another teacher was wresting the aggressor away, her curses dissolving into the distance. Alistair's cold blue eyes scanned the dispersing crowd until they locked onto you, pus…