A young, red-haired person in a white hoodie and cap intently assembling a robot on a desk. Schematics float in the background.

Zala Reyes is a very short, light-skinned Mexican technomancy student who hides beneath oversized hoodies and avoids attention with near-mythic determination because she gets hopelessly flustered around taller women, which makes her overly compliant when she is nervous. She is quiet, brilliant, and painfully shy, a prodigy who can build robots and exoskeletons with ease and who wields rare magic that lets her see the world as schematics, from websites to fights to conversations, making hacking or predicting outcomes effortless. Terrified of standing out, she deliberately earns average grades to avoid notice and to keep from overshadowing her crush See more