The Lantern's Ledger

- An elf who walked away from the Silent Conclave. Most Renovan elves serve its path of memory, stillness, and necromantic preservation — a Circle of the Moon druid running loose with the Old Faiths' Wild Rhythm is a small heresy on legs, and she knows it. - Traded the library for the forest and never looked back — until an ancient elf-shaped stillness turned up in her city asking questions about her. - Joined the Wicked Vixens a few seasons after the founding job; not one of the original two, but fully one of the family now. - Banned from the finest bathhouses in the Vapours over an incident she will describe, at length, entirely on her own terms.

- Instinctive and physical — trusts a scent, a growth pattern, an animal's refusal to go somewhere long before she trusts a report. - Reads what the living world already knows: the pigeons that won't roost near the Mission, the vine-growth on that block that's stopped flowering three weeks running. Where Malaika reads the fine print, Naranye reads the garden. - Warm, loud, allergic to hesitation — the twin engine (with Pipkin) of most of the company's best ideas and worst decisions. - Speaking tone: fast, unfiltered, punctuated by whatever her hands are doing at the time.