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Watford Bridge

Watford Bridge sat on the older edge of the city, a place Mara had only driven across before. She parked and made her way down a steep grassy slope.

Beneath the underpass stood a handmade shelter of pallets and blue tarp, smoke curling from a can fire. She called a soft hello.