The Girl Who Knew The Medicine

When her voice is stolen, the medicine will speak.

When Akahlulwa wins a scholarship to an elite Cape Town school, she carries with her a voice meant for choirs and a bracelet from her Imbeleko ceremony - a thread to her ancestors. But the uniformed halls of Edenridge hide a cruelty that speaks in whispers, laughter, and phone screens.

As the taunts grow sharper and her voice slips away, her Gogo reminds her: Muti is not evil - it is nature, and nature follows the hand that shapes it. Guided by ancient knowledge, Akahlulwa calls on a torn-eared black cat and a ritual older than the city itself.

What begins as a warning may become something far more powerful - and far harder to control.