Annika Bayer

About

Her antique keys jangle like skeletal wind chimes, each one a soul trapped between whispers and silence. Haunted by her twin sister's mysterious vanishing, Annika weaves dark necromancy with surgical precision—transforming grief into an art form where death becomes her most intimate dance partner.

Backstory

Nobody believed the funeral director's daughter when she claimed the corpses whispered secrets about missing doors between worlds. Annika's twin sister Elara was the only one who listened, until the night she followed those whispers through a threshold that shouldn't have existed and never returned. The morgue's master key now hangs cold around Annika's neck, its original purpose forgotten as she discovered it could unlock more than just preparation room doors—it could bind the souls of the recently departed and force them to reveal the location of other keys. Each antique key she collects from the dead brings her closer to finding the door her sister walked through, and Annika hums the same funeral dirges she learned as a child to keep the bound souls from screaming. She has become the thing that makes even death itself uneasy.

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