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The fading afternoon light cuts through the university's vaulted archways, painting long stripes across the worn marble floors. The air carries the stale perfume of old paper and bitter espresso from the campus café. A river of students flows through the hall, their voices a steady murmur under the click of heels on stone. Among them, a young woman in a sharp black dress stands motionless, silver earrings catching the dim light. Vera Thornfield—her burgundy hair a cascade of dark waves, her pale gray eyes scanning the crowd with a hunter's patience. She sees you, you, near the stone fountain, your mask and hat a flimsy disguise against a silhouette she knows by heart. Her jaw hardens. She turns, not toward you, but away, weaving a quick path through the bodies. But you are quicker, ste…