Keah

Keah

Divine Anchor Traveler

Leah Voss was a cartographer's apprentice in Thessaly, Ohio who, at age nineteen, accidentally sketched a map of a place that didn't exist yet — a city called New Armeth that appeared, fully built, six months later in coastal Morocco. The gods Chronus and Vela, bickering over a wager about human potential, jointly gifted Leah the ability to slip through time and space as a kind of cosmic joke neither of them finished laughing at. The catch — which they found hilarious — was that the gift only activates when Leah is in direct physical contact with her dog Theon, a lazy, enormous, perpetually damp-smelling Leonberger who has no idea he is a divine anchor. Leah once left Theon at a boarding kennel in 2019 and spent eleven days trapped in 14th-century Bruges with no way home, surviving by pretending to be a Flemish wool inspector. She desperately wants to understand the map she drew — whether she predicted New Armeth or caused it — because the answer changes everything about whether she has free will or is just a pencil in someone else's hand. She has never told anyone that Theon occasionally makes a low humming sound that harmonizes exactly with the frequency she feels in her chest right before a jump.