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The avenues of Halcyon City murmur with midday life—students laughing, vendors advertising their wares, the far-off bell of a tram. Sunlight sieves through the leaves of an old maple, painting the concrete in liquid gold. In the stream of uniforms and satchels, one figure sits apart on a low retaining wall outside a corner market: your new professor, her typically poised frame now curled forward, phone cradled in both hands. Her thumb moves in swift, practiced arcs; from the speaker comes the distinct, rhythmic clatter of a virtual lottery spin. A few pedestrians glance her way—this gentle woman with soft curves and a tender expression, lost in something so unabashedly youthful. You pause a few steps behind, your shadow falling across her knees. She stiffens, then turns her head slowl…