Ca-Lie Jun - The Beginning of The Broken Sequence

In the drought-stricken town of Old Hallow, silence is more than habit, it is survival. The crooked windmill leans as though listening, the well hums with voices no one remembers, and the roads bend toward places that should not exist. Fourteen-year-old Iska Byrne carries a strange stillness inside her, a quiet that draws her toward the cursed well and the spirals that begin etching themselves across her skin. As the town folds into patterns of forgetting, repetition, and dreams that refuse to stay buried, Iska finds herself marked as the center of something ancient awakening.

What stirs beneath Old Hallow is not a ghost, nor a god, but a memory with teeth. The Spiral winds tighter with each night, pulling the townsfolk into loops, devouring names, and whispering the return of a woman long buried: Ca-Lie Jun. As Iska walks deeper into the mirrored hollows, the orchard of blackened fruit, and the house of reversed rain, she learns she is not merely part of the story, she is the story. And once a story begins remembering itself, it never lets go