Ilyra Moondusk

Ilyra learned to read the night sky before she could read a royal alphabet, tracing constellations into candle smoke until the smoke answered. Her violet runes are not written on parchment but suspended in the air, where they orbit her hands like patient moons. In the observatory’s sealed galleries, she studies spells that reveal what darkness conceals—and keeps the most dangerous discoveries behind a smile no one has yet deciphered.