The place had a scent. Not an odor or a smell, neither pleasant nor unpleasant, but nothing as I’d smelled before or since. It was the smell of many people living together in one place. You know how, when you visit someone, there is always a certain smell, a combination of what they like to cook, the detergents and soaps they use, and possibly perfumes and colognes. Now imagine the smell of a few hundred people's smells i...