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She locked herself in the cannery’s abandoned freezer. The temperature dropped to thirteen degrees Fahrenheit. In the dark, she spoke aloud to the spiral on her forehead.

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.”

The debt collector appeared again, this time sitting on a stack of fish crates. It looked almost… impressed. -Abbisecraa- Abbi Secraa -aka Nelono- 13 HUGE B...

“You’re Nelono now,” it said. Its voice was the scrape of a shovel on concrete. “And I am the debt collector.”

“No one has ever sorted before,” it said. “They usually just break.” She locked herself in the cannery’s abandoned freezer

Abbi doubled over. Her skin didn’t break, but something inside her hatched .

Abbi tried to scream. Her throat closed like a fist. Her school grades plummeted

The creature pressed a cold finger to her forehead. When it pulled away, a symbol remained—a spiral with thirteen barbs, like a jagged nautilus shell. “Abbisecraa,” it whispered. “Abbi Secraa. That was the mask. Nelono is the face underneath.”