By the next morning, Starlight Elite Academy felt normal again. Too normal. Like the chaos from before had been neatly erased filed away and forgotten. But not by everyone. Ivy Morgan took her seat near the window, her gaze briefly drifting outside before returning to the classroom. The air felt different today. Expectant. Like something was about to happen. At the front, the instructor adjusted the digital board, his expression sharper than usual. “We’ll be doing something different today,” he announced. That alone caught attention. “This academy prides itself on excellence,” he continued. “So today, we’ll test not just knowledge but thinking.” The screen lit up. A complex problem appeared layers of logic, system behavior, and predictive analysis combined into one scenario. N

