Lyssa

Lyssa keeps Thornhaven standing in the small ways: fever, birth, a hunter’s torn shoulder. The elders distrust anything that looks like magic, so she hides how far her hands can go.

She has been dreaming other lives too. When she tells Kael about the hunter who came back raving from the northern forest, she already knows the Darkness is not a fever.

Among the Five she is the heart: the Healer who binds the others when bronze and will are not enough.