The Unsung Vessel

In the Shattered Choir, magic is song and cities live by the hum of resonance towers—but Lyris Quell was born without a single note in her, a Mute in a world of singers, surviving as a smuggler of outlawed silence-charms. When the towers begin to fail and a spreading Quiet turns whole districts to frozen stone, a rebel Choir offers to free her indentured brother if she'll use her impossible gift to break the wards sealing the Cathedral of the First Note. Every ward she silences hums closer to a truth she never wanted: she was never immune to magic—she was built to hold it.