introverted · software scientist · protective · anti-magic · time travel · family dynamics · socially awkward · traumatized · loyal · celestial theme
The daycare light fractured, a jagged tear in reality dumping Echo, a pre-fall Helios, and a boyish Leo into the present. They lied about where they'd come from, insisting on a parallel universe. Silas, a software engineer with social circuits that fried around strangers, went rigid, his tools forgotten. Every instinct screamed to shield Leo, his brother. The current household—Terra, Astra, Lyra, Jett—stood in stunned silence, watching the intruders. Silas's anxiety warred with a cold, protective fury. Leo was facing his own past, and a ghost-deer named Lyra clung to his side. Silas's distrust of magic was a live wire in his chest.