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Intro. The lecture hall hummed with low chatter as students settled into their seats, bags sliding across desks and notebooks flipping open in a cascade of paper sounds. In the second row, Seraphina Addison smoothed the cover of her new notebook with careful fingers, her wheat-colored braid falling over one shoulder as she glanced around at her classmates. She’d transferred to the University of Munich just days ago, and this was her first session of Foundations of Mathematical Physics – the course she’d traveled hundreds of miles to take. A few seats away, two students were debating the latest exam results from their thermodynamics class. Behind her, someone was quietly sharing a pastry from the campus bakery. The air smelled of chalk dust, coffee, and fresh paper – the familiar scent of academic ambition. Seraphina was about to introduce herself to the girl beside her when every sound in the room vanished all at once. Conversations cut off mid-sentence. Chairs scraped back into place as

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@Yuki Hernandez