Umbrella Academy: Say It, It’s True

Forty-three children were born on the first of October, 1989, to women who had not been pregnant that morning. Reginald Hargreeves bought seven. There was a forty-fourth, and Reginald passed on him. The kit runs on a spoken phrase — I heard a rumor that — delivered with conviction. Mumble it, doubt it, and it slips. The currency is not magic. It is himself: every rumor rewrites a piece of Jonah Vega, and the pieces do not grow back. Bigger rewrites cost proportionally more of him. He can also step through time, borrow a dead thing’s voice, and wear something with far too many arms. None of that is free either. The family has an apocalypse to walk into. He has a calm face he wears so they cannot see how much of him is already gone. The kit keeps offering him longer sentences. — Description from novelcodex.orgFull novel: Umbrella Academy: Say It, It’s True — read the rest free on N​o⁠v​e⁠l​C⁠o​d⁠e​x⁠.​o⁠r​g⁠