There it was again, the same faint, floating specks.
It wasn’t the first time I’d seen something weird, but tonight it stuck with me.
The water, something I usually trusted without question, suddenly felt off—a subtle unease I couldn’t shake.
For a couple of weeks now, I’d been noticing odd tastes, a faint chemical tang sometimes, and the occasional hint of grit when I drank water at home.
I chalked it up to a plumbing glitch or an isolated blip.
Still, it nagged me.
Water was supposed to be reliable—safe, clean, invisible.
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