Abbi woke to the sound of her own bones humming. Not cracking— humming , like tuning forks buried in her marrow. Her bedroom mirror was no longer a mirror. It was a vertical wound, and through it stepped a creature that wore the shape of a child but had the eyes of a ledger.
Abbi decided to fight.
Then it vanished, and the mirror was glass again, and Abbi’s reflection was crying without her permission. -Abbisecraa- Abbi Secraa -aka Nelono- 13 HUGE B...
The burden arrived at 1:13 AM.
Her school grades plummeted. Her hair turned white at the roots. Lina found her behind the gymnasium, curled into a ball, whispering numbers: “Thirteen years of grief per person. Thirteen thousand people in Vorrow. Do the math, Lina. Do the math.” Abbi woke to the sound of her own bones humming