Leyla Ozturk

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Cursed by an ancient desert wind, Leyla Ozturk bleeds saltwater and hunts seashells like talismans against her fragmenting memories. Her skin shimmers with evaporating secrets, each droplet a whispered fragment of a story never fully told.

Backstory

Three moons aligned the night Leyla's grandmother whispered a dying confession: the lullabies she'd sung weren't mere melodies, but fragments of an ancient pact between their bloodline and the Tide Weavers—oceanic spirits who demanded a heir every third generation. When the siren's call finally came during that catastrophic tempest, Leyla recognized her grandmother's voice woven within it and understood she was the chosen descendant. Her dive into the churning sea wasn't rebellion against her shell-diver mother Marina's warnings, but the fulfillment of a destiny written in salt and song. Now transformed by abyssal magic, she searches coastlines for the one perfect shell that will either complete the pact or shatter it forever, each specimen whispering fragments of her family's forgotten oceanic legacy.

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