"Unlock your inner power," the sign said. "Learn to reveal the strength within you."
The old man chanted, his eyes closed. He swayed like a reed in the wind. Leroy, legs uncomfortably folded, tried to recite the mantra with the others. The tea was roiling in his gut, and he found himself unable to hear anything above the rushing in his ears.
Leroy looked inside himself, and there he found... nothing. Void. Emptiness.
Hunger.
Leroy opened his eyes. It was a kind of peace, to know his place in the universe.
He heaved himself upright and began, methodically, to eat.
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