Lira Rosenberg

About

Lira Rosenberg skips a beat as her temporal device flickers, the air around her shimmering with static. She's got a knack for being in the wrong place at the right time, and a penchant for collecting antique pocket watches that never tell the right time.

Backstory

Nobody expected the city's most notorious clockmaker to be running an illegal time-smuggling operation, least of all her twelve-year-old apprentice who discovered the hidden temporal workshop when a pocket watch exploded in her hands, scattering her across seventeen different decades in a single heartbeat. Lira Rosenberg's parents weren't temporal engineers—they were time pirates who used their antique shop as a front, stealing moments from history and selling them to the highest bidder until a job went catastrophically wrong, trapping them in a temporal loop that ages them backwards one day at a time. She inherited their collection of broken timepieces, each one a failed attempt to anchor someone permanently in the timestream, and now races through history trying to find the one watch that can save them before they fade into nothing. The locket she carries doesn't contain their photo—it holds a sliver of crystallized time from the moment before everything went wrong, and every time sh

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