Layla Al-Noor

About

Her antique key collection whispers stories of distant lands, while her compulsive knitting transforms anxiety into intricate wool landscapes. Layla clutches relationships like fragile threads, terrified that one misplaced stitch might unravel everything she desperately loves.

Backstory

Nobody believed Layla could read emotions through knitting patterns until the night she unraveled her grandmother's final scarf and discovered the hidden message woven in dropped stitches—a map to seven locked doors her grandmother never had the courage to open. Each antique key her grandmother left behind unlocked not physical doors, but fragments of suppressed memories that Layla could only access while her fingers worked yarn in the exact rhythm of her grandmother's breathing. She met Elias at a midnight yarn shop that appeared only when the moon was dark, where he bought thread that shimmered like starlight and whispered promises of teaching her to knit doorways between worlds. When he vanished with the celestial thread, Layla was left humming the lullabies that keep the keys' memories from consuming her dreams, each melody a protective ward against the doors that are slowly beginning to unlock themselves.

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