The Wistful Voyage

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The soup was thick, red as arterial blood, and it smelled of iron and old pennies. We sat around a scarred oak table in the basement of the precinct, the air so stale it felt like breathing through wet wool. There were six of us, but only five places at the table. The sixth was empty, the chair pushed back, the plate still warm with the residue of a meal no one had finished. It was a ritual we...

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