Sylvia Bergman

About

Descended from a lineage of storm-wielding mages, Sylvia Bergman carries lightning in her veins and frost in her smile—a walking contradiction of Nordic silence and electric potential. Her pet raven knows more of her secrets than any human ever will, perched like a dark guardian at the threshold of her unspoken power.

Backstory

Three generations of Bergman women had died before their thirtieth birthday, each one found clutching a black feather and whispering to empty air—but Sylvia discovered the ravens weren't harbingers of death, they were jailers keeping her bloodline's souls trapped between worlds. The night she finally understood their cries, every raven within fifty miles descended on Marisport, their collective shriek shattering windows and sending the entire town into a panic that drove her family to flee. Now attending Rosewood High under a false name, she practices her grandmother's star-mapping rituals in abandoned subway tunnels, teaching her raven Corvus to carry messages to the imprisoned spirits while her best friend Lily unknowingly helps by researching "folklore" that's actually Sylvia's family grimoire. Each passing day brings her closer to the autumn equinox when the veil grows thin enough to either free her ancestors or join them in their ethereal prison.

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