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KAIRAThe office was not empty, I stopped in the doorway and for a second my brain genuinely did not know what to do with what my eyes were showing it. There was a woman sitting on Professor Zane's desk like it was hers, her legs crossed at the ankle, very comfortable, very settled, the kind of comfortable that meant she had been comfortable there before.She looked up when I came in and her face arranged itself into something that was polite but not particularly warm."Hi," she said. "Are you looking for the professor?"She looked down at the papers I was holding, Draven's report in one hand and mine in the other, and I nodded."He said he would be back soon," she said, and then turned back to whatever she had been looking at on her phone.I stood there for a second. My options were to wait, which meant staying in the room with a stranger who was already making me feel like I was the one who had walked into the wrong space, or to leave and come back, which was the logical thing to do

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KAIRAI rushed into our room still carrying the report and my phone and whatever was left of my dignity after that whole situation. Jessica was sitting on her bed doing something with her hands, some new skill she had been trying to learn, her tongue slightly pressed to the corner of her mouth the way she always looked when she was concentrating.She looked up the moment I walked in and whatever expression was on my face must have been something because she dropped the thing in her hands immediately."What happened?" she asked.I couldn't even help it, the laugh came out before I could type a single word. I kicked the door shut behind me and started pulling off my uniform top because if I was going to tell this story, I was going to be comfortable while telling it."Give me one second," I typed and showed her the screen while walking to my side of the room to throw the top on my bed.She watched me and waited, which to her credit took visible effort. I settled at the edge of her bed,

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KAIRAHe took the report from my hand and I sat down. The office was quieter than it had been in the afternoon, no Tracy, no extra presence filling up the corners of the room.Just the lamp on his desk and the sound of him settling back into his chair and the very loud fact that it was seven in the evening and I was the only person in this building who was not a professor.He read through the report without saying anything. I watched him read it because I honestly could not stop watching him. His eyes moved across the page patiencely that suggested he was actually reading it and not just pretending to.I sat with my hands in my lap and waited. He turned a page, turned it back and read something again. I kept my face arranged into an expression I hoped communicated that I was a normal, unbothered person who knew this is no different from any other evening.Then he put the paper down flat on the desk. "The both of you wrote almost the same thing," he said. He looked at the report and th

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