Leandra Okoye

About

Obsessed with recovering her vanished brother, Leandra time-travels like a precision instrument—methodical yet haunted, her pocket watch a silent metronome tracking impossible distances between eras. Her encyclopedic memory of 1950s jazz becomes both her comfort and her compass, each historical fragment potentially concealing a clue to his mysterious disappearance.

Backstory

Three generations of Okoye women had served as archivists for the Treme Community Center, but Leandra was the first to discover that some of the donated items in their collection weren't just old—they were temporally displaced. When her brother Samuel began experiencing vivid dreams of events that hadn't happened yet, she realized he was somehow connected to a mysterious 1890s pocket watch that had arrived in a donation box with no return address. The night Samuel tried to destroy the watch to stop the visions, both siblings were pulled into its temporal vortex, but while Leandra emerged in 1962 clutching the now-active timepiece, Samuel had been scattered across the timeline like fragments of a broken mirror. She discovered that each time she uses the watch to jump through decades, she can sense echoes of his presence in different eras, always just out of reach, as if he's existing in the spaces between moments where even time travelers fear to tread.

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