He pulled out the bottle again, and polished off the dregs.

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But amid the dregs are shards of brilliant, piercing writing.

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Sometimes the crows would go quiet and send out reconnaissance, one or two of them circling and landing in the street to examine a candy wrapper or the dregs of a garbage can that the sanitation men had emptied incompletely.

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