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Visitor, what is hunger?
— You don’t have to call me visitor anymore, Aru — I replied, giving myself time to think about the question. — You can use my name. Because, technically, I’m a refugee.
Fifteen years old. The whole class wasn’t older than that, and yet it was the third question of that magnitude I’d been asked in a week.
Aru blinked assertively and asked the question again:
— Redson, what’s hunger like?
— I’m not sure I understand. You want to know how people get to starve?
— No, we know that. The Great Famine Age ha... Read more
