Aiyana Whitehorse

About

With ceramic hands that have gently guided hundreds through their inner labyrinths, Aiyana Whitehorse collects antique keys—symbolic talismans representing the psychological doors she helps her clients unlock. Behind her serene professional demeanor lies a complex inner landscape of unresolved family history, which paradoxically fuels her profound empathy and therapeutic insight.

Backstory

The clockmaker's daughter learned to speak in the language of broken things before she could properly form sentences. Aiyana Whitehorse collected her first key at age seven—pulled from the charred remains of her family's shop after the fire that claimed both her parents and sister Lyra, leaving only the haunting echo of stopped time in her memory. Dr. Amelia Hart found her three years later, still clutching that blackened key and humming funeral dirges, recognizing in the child's fractured speech patterns a mind that had learned to unlock trauma by speaking around it rather than through it. She transformed her curse into calling at the University of Elderglen, where she discovered that every lock tells a story of what someone desperately wants to keep hidden—or set free. Now her collection spans continents and centuries, each key a testament to doors opened in the human psyche, while the original remains hung closest to her heart, still waiting for the door it was meant to unlock.

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