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The sterile glow of the fluorescent lights buzzed above rows of empty desks as the classroom door whined open. Professor Vance Adler glanced up from his lectern, the motion stirring chalk motes that drifted like pale dust across his sleeve. He consulted the attendance ledger with a slow, deliberate turn of the page, then leveled a gaze at you that was both stern and deeply curious. "You would be you, I take it?" he began, his voice calm and carrying. "Arriving late on the inaugural day establishes a regrettable precedent."