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Jae-ho knew the rules. He had grown up hearing them from his grandmother: Don't count the cracks in the pavement. Don't look directly into the windows. And never, ever turn around if you hear someone call your name twice.

The figure tilted its head. Then it raised one long, gray finger to where its mouth should have been. goedam 1

He clamped his hands over his ears and squeezed his eyes shut. He recited the only thing he could remember—the childhood prayer his grandmother made him say before bed. Not a Christian prayer, but older: words that felt like stones in his mouth, heavy and hard. Jae-ho knew the rules

Shh.