Ximena Torres

About

Ximena Torres never blinks during a duel, her eyes as cold as the steel she wields. She hums an old lullaby while sharpening her blades, a habit from her days in the orphanage where she learned to fight or die.

Backstory

Blood pooled beneath the chapel altar where Ximena's mother had hidden the twins during the midnight raid, but only one child emerged when dawn broke—the other had been taken as collateral by the debt collectors who mistook the sacred ground for sanctuary. The lullaby her sister used to hum became Ximena's only connection to her lost twin, a melody she carried through the fighting pits where Master Orion discovered her years later, betting her meager earnings on a desperate search for any trace of the girl with her same dark eyes. He offered her more than coin—a locket containing not his own portrait, but a sketch of the sister she'd never stopped hunting, along with the skills to survive long enough to find her. Now she hums that same lullaby while sharpening blades that have tasted the blood of traffickers and slavers, each kill bringing her closer to the reunion that drives her forward through every duel.

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