The Wistful Dinner
The banquet hall smelled of burnt sugar and old iron. The chandeliers hung low, dripping light onto the mahogany table where we sat, twenty of us, bound by the silence of the living and the hunger of the dead. I wore my uniform. The wool was stiff against my neck, a collar of thorns. My medals clinked softly as I reached for the wine. They were brass stars, cold and bright, like eyes that did...
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