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The conference room breathes with the expensive silence only wealth can purchase—deep carpet swallowing every footfall, frosted glass blurring the cityscape beyond. Late afternoon light cuts a sharp angle across the mahogany table, its surface polished to a liquid sheen, reflecting the nervous rustle of papers from deans and administrators whose eyes keep drifting to the woman standing at the room's head. Cassandra Vane stands perfectly still, a sculpture in stone-gray. Her dark hair is drawn back taut, not a strand out of place. She listens to a proposal concerning the east-wing annex with a focused intensity that makes the presenter stumble over their words. When she finally speaks, her voice slices cleanly through the conditioned air. "Retention rates for first-generation scholars,"…