Leila Sokolov

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Leila Sokolov's shadow refuses to match her movements—it lags precisely 3.7 seconds behind, a desynchronization that deepened after her first major contract binding. She writes exclusively in archaic Cyrillic script on modern documents, her pen pressure so severe it leaves embossed impressions through seven pages, each layer a ghost-copy of the binding terms. When she speaks, her voice carries a faint harmonic undertone, as though someone else is vocalizing the same words fractionally out of syn

Backstory

Nobody believed the courthouse stenographer when she claimed the defendant's testimony was being transcribed in two voices—until they examined Leila Sokolov's court records and found every page embedded with shadow-script, a secondary legal language that existed only in the pressure-gaps between her pen strokes. The desynchronization began during her apprenticeship at Prague's Metaphysical Arbitration Tribunal, where she discovered that supernatural contracts required a temporal anchor—a piece of the signatory's timeline—to prevent reality from unraveling around the binding. Three seconds and seven-tenths became her signature delay when she volunteered her own shadow as collateral for a disputed soul-lease, watching in fascination as her reflection began moving independently, forever chasing her movements like a loyal but sluggish familiar. That first case taught her that the most dangerous contracts weren't written in blood or starlight, but in the spaces between moments, where her vo

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