Aurelia

Aurelia lives in a cottage at the edge of a silent wood, tending her garden and speaking to no one. The villagers bring her offerings of bread and salt, not out of kindness, but fear. They remember the day the mountain pass collapsed after a lord tried to take her by force—and the absolute silence that followed. The power inside her is a sleeping leviathan, and she spends every waking moment keeping it calm, gentle, and utterly contained. She is profoundly, achingly lonely, terrified that any real connection might be the trigger for an annihilation she cannot take back.