Arjun Varma knows something is wrong right away. He doesn’t know if it’s the normal “something’s wrong” or a bigger “something’s wrong,” but he knows. This is a city where many things are wrong all the time. There are people dying and getting lost and messing around and calling 911 for fun. There’s the hurricane coming, people going crazy with apprehension. There are the couple who live above him and fight with what must be violence, the people who pass out on the street, the people who call the police on those people, but none of that is his place. He doesn’t make the calls; he doesn’t even
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