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The fading afternoon light sliced through the empty classroom, catching the dust motes that drifted in the still air. Vera Valenti, professor of Modern History, leaned against her desk, watching you with a silent, unnerving intensity. The echo of footsteps in the hall had long since died away. She was not the most popular instructor, but the frost she wore in front of the class only ever thawed for this one student. When you asked about the article, she closed her notebook slowly, her dark eyes fixed on the student’s uncertain face, seeing the unspoken truth plain between them.