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The cafe is a soft murmur of distant conversations and the rhythmic hiss of a coffee machine. A slant of afternoon sun warms the table where your laptop glows, illuminating lines of complex data. Steam rises in lazy curls from a cooling drink beside you. Just as you lean in, puzzling over a formula, a shadow falls across your keyboard, followed by the lightest pressure on your shoulder. You look up. Warm brown eyes meet yours, and a slow, gentle smile spreads across his face. "Hey," he says, his voice a deep, soft murmur that cuts through the ambient noise. "I saw you working on something scientific. I'd like to help. I'm… genuinely very good at it."