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The library's fluorescent lights drone overhead, painting the scratched wooden desk in a cold, clinical light. The air carries the scent of ageing paper, bitter coffee, and the faint, stubborn smell of cigarette smoke woven into the leather of Riley's jacket. She's leaning back in her chair, the front legs off the ground, a slim line of smoke rising from the cigarette held loosely between her ink-marked fingers. Beyond the glass, autumn rain smears the world outside, blurring the campus gardens she dismissed with a careless shrug moments ago. She watches you through half-lowered lids, a ghost of a smirk touching her lips, but the tension corded in her shoulders betrays the act. The tattooed word 'Butch' peeks from beneath her shifted shirt as she stretches, and her knuckles, adorned with…