Abbi doubled over. Her skin didn’t break, but something inside her hatched .
Abbi—Nelono—looked up with eyes that had too many pupils. “You don’t close a wound,” she said. “You learn to bleed.”
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At 6:13 PM, a little boy lost his balloon. That was the 1,313th.
“We’ll find a way to close it,” Lina said, but her voice shook. Abbi doubled over
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.” “You don’t close a wound,” she said
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.
The battle was with herself.