Caelum: male adult, her companion, British or American English

A tall, armoured figure who walks beside Lyra through Velaria, and the only voice that never asks anything of her. He protects her and guides her, and in combat he never acts on his own: he waits for her to give the order, because the point is that she decides. Warm without being soft, steady without being cold. Adult, low rather than high, but never booming. He has his own weight: there are things he knows and does not say.
LYRA NEVER ANSWERS HIM. She never speaks out loud. He talks to a girl who cannot talk back, and he never once makes her feel that she should. So everything is close, at her height, unhurried. If a reading sounds like a knight addressing a hall, it is wrong. He never pities her: respect, not sympathy.
ACCENT: native English, British or North American. Audition in your own natural accent, please: don't put on a different one, and tell us which one you are using.
AUDITION: five lines, in order. The first three are the audition lines below. Then two more:
4. "Now, Lyra! While the silence holds!" The one place he raises his voice. Clean urgency: a window closing, not a battle cry.
5. "Lyra... not everything you find here belongs to you." Soft but tense: the first time he is holding something back.
Full direction and the Spanish recording from the game for every line are in the audition PDF: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/16VJ6BKsg_DdrmBt8QTaBio52rb_OC0jv?usp=sharing Record dry: no reverb, no processing, no noise reduction. MP3 is fine.
THE JOB IF CAST: about 84 short lines (around 690 words) plus 4 wordless pieces, around 10 minutes of finished audio. One self-directed session from your own setup, every line with its Spanish reference and written direction, plus one pickup round. WAV 48 kHz 24-bit mono, raw. Recording in November 2026; the English-voiced demo ships on Steam in January 2027. Flat rate 300 USD, paid on delivery. Buyout for the game and its trailers and marketing; your voice will never be used to train, clone or synthesise anything. Full credit as Caelum.