Ava
Edinburgh
Believed every word, because the world had always felt a little bit enchanted to her.
The story
A box that hums. A map that watches back.
Amelia wants proof. Ava believes every word. Musa trusts what he can measure, Noa trusts her pencil, and Ivy listens to the trees.
When the last school bell rings, Amelia, Ava and Noa head for a creaking house full of cardamom and books near the Pass of Killiecrankie, where Musa and Ivy live next door. There, a carved box that has refused to open for generations meets Musa’s old key — and fits, as if it had been made for it.
Inside waits a living map: an Amanah, a trust, that shows the hidden corridors between places and other realms. It leads the five of them to a circle of old stones at the edge of a Scottish field, and a doorway into the In‑Between.
But the corridors are not empty, and something is testing every boundary. To protect their world and the ones beside it, the five of them must decide what kind of Custodians they want to be — before the doors between worlds decide for them.
