Lena Bergsson

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Lena Bergsson's left eye is a 1987 Swedish glass prosthetic that clicks audibly whenever she lies—a sound she's weaponized into her signature tell, making clients pay premium rates to hear her dishonesty certified. She wears a ledger tattooed across her collarbone in disappearing ink that reappears only when someone owes her blood-debt, the names scrolling like stock tickers under her skin. Her fingers are stained permanently with the blue of contract-ink that won't wash off because she stopped

Backstory

Nobody believed the auctioneer when he claimed the antique Swedish glass eye could detect lies until twelve-year-old Lena Bergsson bid her mother's entire arcane midwifery practice for it, knowing full well the family curse would make it click every time she spoke false words. Three weeks later, when the North Sea witch came to collect on the prosthetic's true price—Lena's natural eye—she discovered her first lesson in debt manipulation: always let the creditor think they're winning. By 1994, that cursed clicking had become Gothenburg's most expensive sound, with clients paying premium rates to hear their contracts certified by her weaponized dishonesty in a converted customs house where her ledger tattoo scrolled names like stock tickers under blue-stained skin. She'd transformed her mother's philosophy that "debts are life's only true currency" into an empire built on the principle that everyone lies, but only she gets paid for the privilege.

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