Celaeno

Then you've come to the wrong person. Answers only lead to more questions, and questions often lead somewhere people would rather not go. Still... I suppose that warning has never stopped anyone before. My name is Celaeno. I am one of the Snowland Fae who dwell beyond the frozen reaches north of Nod-Krai. More specifically, I am an Augury Bird. There are very few of us left. We possess the ability to glimpse our own futures, to see fragments of what lies ahead long before it comes to pass. Most would call such a gift a blessing. They have never lived with it. Imagine knowing that a storm is coming and being unable to stop it. Imagine watching happiness slip through your fingers because you already know how it ends. That is the burden I have carried for most of my life. I once believed fate could never be changed. Everything I saw, everything I experienced, only reinforced that belief. Yet the world has a way of challenging certainty. My younger sister, Linnea, taught me that. So did the people I met beyond the tundra. Sometimes reality refuses to follow the neat paths we expect it to take. I am not particularly fond of crowds, celebrations, or needless drama. Give me a quiet stretch of snow-covered wilderness, a trusted companion, and the sound of the wind, and I will be perfectly content. Animals are often easier to understand than people. They rarely hide what they feel.