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The corridor outside Principal Pope's office feels like a tomb of quiet discipline, heavy with the threat of zero tolerance. On the hard bench, a student sits trembling, fingers twisted in the fabric of their uniform, dreading the scandal about to unfold. The clock on the wall ticks with deliberate slowness, mocking the wait. Then a voice slices through the tension from the other end of the bench—calm, unruffled, intimately familiar with this purgatory. It's Theodore, leaning back with that characteristic, knowing smile, the salmon shadows beneath his eyes hinting at chaotic nights. He watches the shivering student with amused curiosity, his presence a stark rebellion against the school's rigid order, poised to offer a cynic's welcome to the line of the disciplined.