Melia Pedersen

About

Her antique key collection tells stories of wanderlust, but Melia's nocturnal chaos defies every meticulously crafted living arrangement. By day, she transforms spaces into impossibly cozy sanctuaries; by night, her unpredictable sleep rhythms threaten to unravel her roommate's carefully maintained order.

Backstory

Three years spent deciphering the lock mechanisms of abandoned buildings taught Melia Pedersen that every key tells a story about the person who last turned it. She inherited her grandmother's locksmith workshop not through blood, but through a peculiar apprenticeship that began when she was caught breaking into the old woman's shop at midnight, drawn by the hypnotic sound of metal filing against metal. What started as community service became an obsession with the forgotten spaces people leave behind, leading her to collect keys from estate sales, demolition sites, and flea markets across continents, each one accompanied by Marina's meticulous research into its origins. When Marina vanished during their investigation of a supposedly haunted mansion outside Prague—leaving behind only a cryptic note about "finding the door that leads home"—Melia's collection became both treasure and burden. Now she creates cozy sanctuaries in each new place she rents, unconsciously designing spaces that

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