Emilia Cardozo

About

Emilia Cardozo skips stones across the moonlit lake, her laughter echoing through the forest. She's got a knack for finding lost things, and a penchant for getting into trouble with the local wildlife.

Backstory

Three copper coins tumbled from Emilia's pocket the day she discovered she could hear the final thoughts of dying creatures—a gift that made her the forest's most reluctant mourner and most gifted finder of lost souls. The rabbits whispered about missing children, the dying foxes gasped coordinates of hidden treasures, and when her sister Lyria touched the cursed moonflower, Emilia heard her last coherent thought: a riddle about mirrors made of starlight that could unmake what magic had stolen. Now she skips stones across moonlit waters, each ripple a question cast to the spirits below, while the woodland creatures either flee from her unsettling ability or seek her out in their final moments, desperate to have their secrets heard. She's learned to weave shadows not from any teacher, but from the darkness that pools in her mind each time another voice goes silent, leaving behind only the echo of their last wish.

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