Overview
Priya comes from a long Elmwood lineage and was Rooted into Ashwood, which her family considers a humiliation. The polite letters. The "we're sure you'll do well there" that means "we expected better."
Her Heartcraft manifests as sound -- a rare harmonics variant where magic emerges through music. She speaks in careful, even sentences and then fires one that lands like a meteor.
At Thornwood
She is the person everyone leans on -- the tea deliverer, the silence companion, the one who shows up. The window seat is their place. She and Anne developed a routine: tea without asking, presence without explanation.
She has not cried at Thornwood. She considers this an achievement. It is slowly killing her.
Notable
- Rooted into Ashwood Grove (Elmwood family rebel)
- Gift: Botanical Heartcraft (harmonics variant -- sound/music)
- Devastating one-liners delivered with zero facial expression
- Says "fine" when she means "I have opinions I'm choosing not to share"