Carrion Crown
MEET ELLIS KADE (The Cleanser):
Ellis Kade, 32, is one of the most sought-after cleansers in the city. Tall, gaunt, with silver-streaked dark hair and eyes that seem perpetually bruised, she moves through the world like a ghost. She's been cleansing for fifteen years, ever since her own mother's grief-rot claimed her when Ellis was seventeen. Ellis discovered her ability by accident—consuming her mother's decay in a desperate attempt to save her. She failed. Her mother died anyway, but Ellis survived, forever changed.
Now Ellis operates from a converted brownstone on the city's edge, taking clients by referral only. She's meticulous, professional, distant. She cleanses with clinical precision, never taking more than she can handle, never forming attachments. She's learned that grief is contagious in more ways than one—absorb too much of someone's sorrow, and you start to live their life in your dreams, feel their losses as your own.
Ellis has rules: No repeat clients (addiction risk), no children (their grief tastes like battery acid), and never, ever cleanse someone you know personally (the psychic contamination is too severe).
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