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    Sansa is back for the new term with her composure polished, her family’s fall still following her, and a boyfriend who looks perfect on paper: kind, respectable, and exactly the sort of match everyone keeps telling her will help put House Stark back where it belongs. But at a campus that runs like a miniature court, every favor has a cost, every introduction feels strategic, and being welcomed is not the same thing as being free.

    Then there’s the café.

    It’s warm, ordinary, and just far enough from the rest of the university to feel like a life outside the script. And behind the counter is a scholarship student from Castle Black, quiet, capable, and maddeningly uninterested in who Sansa is supposed to be.

    She tells herself it’s just coffee.
    Just a place to breathe.
    Just a boy who doesn’t seem to want anything from her at all.

    She is wrong, oh so very very wrong.

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