Shangri-La Dining Hall

The dining hall is a cramped, functional space where camp residents gather for shared meals. Long wooden tables run the length of the room, stained by years of use. The air smells of boiled potatoes and damp wool. Fluorescent lights buzz overhead, casting uneven light across the scarred tabletops. Voices echo against the thin plywood walls, blending laughter with the clatter of dented metal trays. Burton’s forced cheer bounces off the unadorned walls, barely masking the room’s institutional sterility. Every chair scrapes the linoleum floor as inhabitants shuffle through hurried meals, their hunger driven by survival rather than appetite.