“I’ll hold enough,” Abbi said. “Not all. Just enough.”
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. -Abbisecraa- Abbi Secraa -aka Nelono- 13 HUGE B...
The burden arrived at 1:13 AM.
“You want me to be Nelono? Fine. But Nelono doesn’t just hold sorrow. Nelono weighs it.” “I’ll hold enough,” Abbi said
The debt collector tilted its head. “What will you hold now?” “I’ll hold enough
“You’re Nelono now,” it said. Its voice was the scrape of a shovel on concrete. “And I am the debt collector.”