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“Do you think maybe we should ask someone else for help?” you ask. You’re huddled in a corner of the library, trying to make sense of a page of Dr. Valentina’ s journal that’s entirely in code.

Alex looks up from the cloth-bound volume about wartime codebreaking that they had been studying. “What, like a faculty member?” Alex says. “No way. They’re part of, like, the system.”

You sigh. “Okay, not a faculty member. I was thinking maybe someone like Samantha.” You’ve never met someone as good at puzzles as Samantha Li, the president of the board game club where you met as first years. These days, she’s a PhD student at MIT, doing some kind of advanced robotics research you can’t even begin to understand.

“I thought of that,” Alex says, “so I looked her up. Turns out she’s on a research sabbatical until, like, April 15.”

“Oh.”

“In Antarctica.”

“Oh.”

“So that’s a no.”

“Well, shit,” you say, turning your attention back to the page in front of you. “I guess it’s up to us, then.”

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