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The story opens in a seemingly ordinary classroom where a reclusive little girl named Lucinda Embry stands apart from her peers, overwhelmed by strange whispers. Tasked with envisioning the future, she scrawls a series of numbers on her paper instead of drawings like the other children. As the time capsule is buried on the school's opening day, Lucinda's eerie connection to these numbers becomes evident. After the ceremony, her actions escalate; in a moment of fright, she scratches additional numbers into a door, begging for the whispers to cease. This moment marks the genesis of a chilling prophecy.