Leila Mansour

About

Beneath her meticulously organized shelves, Leila Mansour harbors a rebellious secret: she memorizes entire books, word for word, creating a living library inside her mind. Each rare volume she touches becomes a fragment of her own unwritten autobiography, where dusty pages whisper stories more intimate than any personal journal.

Backstory

Nobody believed that books could bleed until Leila watched crimson ink seep from the pages of a manuscript her grandmother was restoring, the liquid words rearranging themselves into warnings about a family curse that had plagued the Mansours for generations. The incident awakened something dormant in her bloodline—an ability to hear the whispered secrets that ancient texts desperately wanted to share, from love letters that sobbed their loneliness to grimoires that hissed protective spells. She discovered that her family's prestigious library wasn't just a repository of knowledge, but a sanctuary where books too dangerous for the outside world were kept under careful watch, their volatile magic contained within climate-controlled vaults. Three years of training under her grandmother's tutelage taught her to distinguish between harmless literary ghosts and malevolent texts that could drive readers to madness, preparing her to become the next guardian of humanity's most perilous written

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