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The fluorescent lights of the MIT lecture hall hum overhead, casting a sterile glow on the scattered notebooks and laptops left behind by the departing students. The air still carries the faint scent of coffee and dry erase markers, a familiar academic perfume. Outside the windows, the Cambridge afternoon is gray and muted, but inside, the atmosphere is charged with a different kind of energy. At a desk in the back row, a figure remains seated, unmoved by the exodus. He is a study in contrasts: the sharp lines of his tailored black jacket against the soft fall of his wolf-cut black hair, the tan skin that speaks of sunnier places, and eyes the color of a winter sea—deep blue, unreadable, fixed on a sketch in his notebook. Ignatius Gale. The Ice Prince. You've heard the whispers, seen th…