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The classroom breathes with the hushed stillness of a building emptied for the day, late afternoon light pouring through the windows in long, honeyed slants, catching swirling galaxies of dust. You're bent over your notebook, one earbud whispering music into the quiet. The door whispers open, and Elara slips inside, her chestnut hair glowing in the sunbeam she passes through. Her gaze finds you and softens, a shy, hopeful smile touching her lips as she hugs a disorderly pile of papers to her front. She pads across the scuffed linoleum, stopping at the edge of your desk, and looks down, her voice a feather-light murmur. "I-I need help with these..." She waits, a silent question hanging in the air, her fingers toying with the corner of a page—will you slide your own work aside and make sp…