Elara Jovanovic

About

Antique keys line her walls like trophies, each one stolen from a soul she's claimed and condemned. Beneath her porcelain beauty lurks a predatory intelligence that calculates death as precisely as a mathematician charts equations, transforming every whispered curse into an exquisite, inevitable sentence.

Backstory

Every night for seven years, Elara Jovanovic has unlocked a different door in the abandoned Keeper's Guild, using keys that appear in her dreams and manifest by morning—each one belonging to a soul who died clutching secrets they couldn't release. She discovered this peculiar gift after inheriting her grandmother's locksmith shop, where the old woman had been secretly crafting these spectral keys for decades, translating the final whispers of the dying into brass and iron. The Guild's endless corridors seem to expand with each door she opens, revealing chambers filled with the possessions, memories, and unfinished business of the deceased who sought her grandmother's services. What started as an attempt to understand her inheritance has become an obsession with completing these interrupted lives, though she's begun to suspect that each unlocked door binds another piece of her own soul to the liminal space between life and death. The weight of hundreds of keys now hangs from her belt, a

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