PT ACTIVE PROFILE SHEET
Graia left Petra with handprints of soot and salt on her palms, and a bruise of light beneath the ribs where the new name had settled. She walked into the hard morning as someone with a ledger balanced only by an altered way of keeping accounts. The initiation had been painful, precise, and oddly merciful: Petra had taken pieces of her history and returned a vessel shaped for endurance.