Meridian Ambercrest
the Noonshadow Siren
Named for the line of the sun's highest point and the fossil-light caught in her hair, a crest of amber that gleams only in the dark.
Power
Shadowtide — you can step across the boundary between the living tide and the drowned memory of it, but each crossing costs a piece of your reflection, and you have fewer pieces than you did.
- Familiar
- A gut-colored eel named Syzygy
- Tide
- the Noonshadow Current
Your father's crown sits empty on a throne of barnacle-crusted coral, and you have never worn it. The court thinks you are too soft for the deep, until the tide brings a message written in the scales of a dead fish, and only you can read the shadow it casts. You have always known that power is not taken — it is remembered.