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The 13th House
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Chapter one · The Exposed One - Cancer
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The Premise
Astrology is real. Not the horoscope on your phone, the thing underneath it.
Every person alive is born under one true sign, and that sign hands you a single power for the whole of your life. Twelve signs, twelve powers.
A Cancer can throw an unbreakable wall around anyone they love, and never around themselves. A Scorpio steers a person through pain, and feels every bit of it. A Gemini wears your face, and loses their own the longer they wear it.
Most people go their whole lives never knowing they have a power at all. A hidden network of twelve Houses, one per sign, knows the truth, and spends its whole existence keeping it buried.
Here is the catch that runs the world. There is no free power.
Using your sign spends your own life. Small uses are cheap. The big ones cost you years you do not get back.
And you can climb. Every sign has tiers, and between them stand walls, and breaking a wall makes you stronger and takes another piece of you.
You break it the fast way, alone, in a moment of desperation that might kill you and leaves a jagged scar. Or you let a House walk you up the slow safe way, and now you owe them for the rest of your life.
Every wall you break writes a constellation of your own sign into your skin, glowing, permanent, impossible to hide. You can read a stranger's whole life off their arm. How strong they are.
Whose they are.
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