Nalini Chatterjee

About

Her antique key collection tells a story of calculated precision, each cold metal trophy polished to reflect the lives she's methodically erased. Beneath her soft Bengali accent and delicate hands lies a predator who rewrites human destiny with surgical patience, transforming random strangers into carefully curated footnotes in her personal ledger of vengeance.

Backstory

Every night at precisely 11:47 PM, Nalini Chatterjee receives a phone call from her dead grandmother Edna—or so she believes, as the voice whispers locations where bodies will be found, always accompanied by the sound of jingling keys. The calls began after Nalini discovered that her inherited locksmith business was a front for Edna's decades-long career as a "cleaner" who disposed of evidence for the city's underground, each antique key in her collection corresponding to a crime scene she'd sanitized. When Nalini's partner Lucas threatened to expose the family legacy after stumbling upon Edna's meticulously kept ledger of death dates and locations, she used her grandmother's techniques to ensure his permanent silence. Now she continues the family tradition, humming the same lullaby Edna sang while working, convinced that each new key she adds to her collection brings her closer to understanding the whispered instructions from beyond the grave.

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