A quiet moment between classes.
Two students pass by, their voices light, unguarded.
They speak of her.
Kind. Attentive. Different.

The Professor listens…and decides, quite rationally, that he has no reason to care.

The library, however, offers a certain necessity.

A book.
Nothing more.

What begins as a perfectly reasonable visit quickly proves otherwise. Focus slips. Pages turn unread. And attention drifts… where it should not.