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Weekly Contest #66
Lit only by the cold candlelight on the walls, the room seemed to be empty. Of people, anyway. There wasn’t much to do but sit on the bench only a few feet from the cells that lay rotting, the metal bars patiently rusting. That was the only real way to tell that time even passed here – the candles were not replaced often enough to be of any use, and the light of day never reached this part of the ship. It could be the middle of the day right now, and yet it was still almost pitch black in the cells. Only one was occupied at the moment. Th...
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