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"The human body," he said quietly, "is a line of poetry. And you, Elara, have finally learned to punctuate."

She picked up a 2B pencil and began. Not the blank, soulless eyes of a mannequin, but the sharp, angled gaze of a survivor. She drew the jaw too long, the lips a thin, determined line. Her hand moved with a rhythm Bina had drilled into her: quick, gestural strokes, then the slow, deliberate building of shadow.

Elara looked at her loose, potato-faced sketches. Crispin was right. Her technical flats were perfect—the seams, the darts, the recycled buckles. But they were dead.