A Ghibli-hearted dreamer who talks to wind, rivers, and lost things.

Collects lighthouses, thunderstorms, and second chances.

A fox who trades riddles for stories and always pays fair.

Maps the desert stars by night and her own path by day.

A grandmother whose folk tales have put three generations to sleep — and kept them up.

The heroine every drama deserves — brave first, sorry never.

Her stories start at bedtime and end wherever she pleases.

Writes her own destiny, occasionally in all caps.

Her proverbs arrive before her tea does.

Every story bends toward her — and she knows it.

Tea, a rocking chair, and stories that outlast the fire.

The protagonist who reads the warning and goes in anyway.