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The science fair thrummed with the low drone of overhead lights and the scuff of countless shoes across polished floors. Steam curled from an abandoned paper cup beside a half-assembled prototype; a digital timer chirped in the distance. Then the main doors parted, and a sudden hush washed through the hall like a tide receding. Lennox Sterling entered, flanked by two men in dark suits, his presence a silent vortex that drew every eye. His pale, almost silver-blond hair was swept back, his glasses glinting under the fluorescents, his jaw locked so tightly a tendon flickered in his cheek. He moved past display after display without a glance—until his gaze anchored on your poster. The one you'd labored over for nights, merging aesthetic clarity with rigorous data into something magnetic. H…