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... in the hallway, casting long shadows against the peeling wallpaper. The air inside the apartment complex was thick with the scent of unwashed bodies, desperation, and the faintest traces of mildew. A few residents lingered in the corridor, their faces gaunt, their eyes sunken with hunger.

Evelyn stood in the center of it all, her voice sharp as a blade.

"We’re all starving, and yet he walks around like nothing’s wrong," she hissed, pointing toward Karl’s apartment door. "Have yo ...

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