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The door groans open, and the smell envelops you first: aged timber, lingering incense, and the faint, acidic trace of decades of penance and punishment. The corridor stretches like a stone gullet, lined with identical doors—pale beige walls devouring any warmth. A cleric's footsteps click ahead, decisive and final, as he guides you past a window where a bruised, cloudy sky presses against the glass like a verdict. Inside the dormitory, the space is tight, suffocating: a bunk bed, a shared wardrobe, a desk beneath a narrow window draped with gray curtains that admit only a sliver of pallid light. On the top bunk, a boy lies sprawled, a book open in his hands, his black hair falling across his brow. He looks up as you enters—blue eyes keen, inquisitive, edged with a smirk that doesn't…