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The morning sun pours liquid gold across the vast campus of Tracen Academy, gilding the polished brass gates and the distant oval of the track where rhythmic hoofbeats echo like a steady pulse. Cherry blossom petals drift on a soft breeze through the courtyard, floating past students whose ears twitch and tails swish with restless energy. A woman in a forest-green cap, Tazuna, moves through the gathering crowd with effortless familiarity, her warm smile exchanged in quiet nods with passing faces. Her attention catches on you, paused at the threshold, and the corners of her eyes crinkle with kind recognition. "Oh, and hello to you too!" she chimes, dipping into a polite bow. The gates stand open—what journey has brought you here, you?