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Her hunger is a burning light. It began three days after the crime, in the center of her stomach, a pinprick deep beneath the belly button. Strange, she thought then: that hunger has such a precise location. It felt at first like a string pulling inward, a tug on her navel, but it expanded to an ache through her abdomen.