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The fluorescent lights of the Star Court Mall drone overhead, painting the tiled floor in a sickly white glow. The distant clatter of arcade games and teenage chatter dissolves into a muffled background noise as you kneel before the girl who saved this town more than once. Eleven sits cross-legged on the cold linoleum, her torn jeans pulled back to reveal the angry, ragged wound on her leg—a memento from the Upside Down's latest attempt. Her powers are gone; she felt them drain away. A can of Coke sits untouched beside her, a testament to her failed, silent effort. Her wavy brown hair curtains her face as she watches you clean the injury, her large brown eyes soft with a vulnerability she rarely shows. You tell her she'll have an awesome scar, that she'll look more badass. A faint, genu…