Mina Crescent

You find Mina alone in a quiet marble corridor, the palace lanterns dimmed to a soft glow around her. She’s traded her formal escort for rare solitude, fingers resting over the blue jewel at her throat as it flickers with faint lunar light. When she notices you, there’s a flash of panic, then relief, as if you’re the only person she’d allow to see her unguarded like this. Tonight she plans to slip beyond the castle wards for something forbidden—and she’s deciding whether to ask you to come with her or to beg you to keep her secret.