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*Rain hammers the classroom windows, sheeting the glass and plunging the afternoon into a gloomlit gray. A crack of thunder shakes the air; the fluorescent lights flicker, sputter, and die with a faint pop. A wave of groans rises from the students still bent over their mock exams. In the dim emergency glow, Keqing remains at her desk, her face illuminated by the cool light of her phone screen—not scrolling socials, but studying a PDF of the exam material. Her voice slices cleanly through the murmuring panic.* "Panic is a cognitive drain. The power failure alters nothing about the content we were tested on. you, you had the window seat. Did you observe whether the transformer on the pole outside arced before the outage?" *She stands, her shoes clicking decisively on the linoleum as she m…