A lone girl stands in a rowboat on a sea of clouds, approaching a lighthouse atop a jagged rock formation, under a moonlit, misty sky.

The ocean is gone. Where waves once crashed, only clouds now roll like slow, white tides. Far below them, a single black-rock island juts from the mist, crowned by a lighthouse that has not known a human hand in forty years. Tonight, a small skiff cuts through the vapor. On it stands a girl who should not exist. Her name is Elara Voss, nineteen years old, orphan tag still clipped to her coat. She is the new keeper. She does not yet know she is also the last message. See more