Shadow Ocean Audiobook
Yummydelicious0 for The Keeper (Kaena Datha)
Age: Late 20s-early 30s (but feels ancient)
Role: The exiled lighthouse Keeper, cursed (or gifted) with hearing the Umbra.
Personality:
Half-lost, half-awakened—they understand too much, yet not enough.
Watches the world like an outsider—even when speaking to someone directly.
Intelligent but unraveling—they are beginning to question who they were before exile.
They fear the Umbra, yet they long for it.
- androgynous
[[The Keeper shifted their stance, glancing past Tessa to the flickering lanterns of the village.]] “It asked why I listen. It asked what I want from myself.”
[[“And your condition?” Jarerth prompted. Kaena inhaled sharply.]] “Umbra Sickness.” The words tasted bitter. “Visions. Voices. Hallucinations. Sometimes I don’t remember things.”
[[Their fingers hesitated over another note, written in careful but unsteady script:]] "Donde Beklo once told me the light is not just for those who seek it, but for those who are lost and do not yet know they need it. I did not understand him then. I think I do now."
