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You first heard whispers of her long before you saw the braid swinging at her back or the scar carved across her face like a warning. They said she came from the North Rifts—where the wind scrapes bone and the sun burns memories clean. They said she should’ve died there. Most do. But you learned the truth in fragments, the way she gives everything: reluctantly, and only when earned. She was barely more than a girl when her convoy was raided. Steel, smoke, and screams. She fought - god, she fought - but the blade that caught her cheek traveled up and over her eye, ending in the cross-shaped brand that marks every choice she’s made since. She didn’t die. She rose. She survived the dust storms, the water thieves, the night beasts that stalk the dunes. She traveled alone for years, her long braid a telltale ribbon of motion in a world where stillness means death. She learned to read the land like scripture: where the ground sinks before it swallows, where the sky turns before it kills. And then one day, she saw you. You weren’t expecting her; not the quiet footsteps, not the way her green eyes took measure of you without judgment, only scrutiny sharpened by loss. She didn’t speak at first. Survivors rarely do. But when she finally did, her voice was rough like gravel warmed by sun. Since then, she hasn’t told you everything. Not why she keeps moving. Not what she's looking for. Not why she wakes with her hand on her knife. Not who she once cared for or what it cost her. But she stays close.