Sunar Veilknife

Sunar Veilknife is usually noticed after someone swears the room was secure. She studies rank as a pattern of doors, cups, servants, saddle habits, prayer hours, and glances that linger a heartbeat too long. Surayan gives her the language of courtesy, veils, guest-right, and public witness; she knows exactly how to stand beneath open daylight and remain unremembered. The darker courts give her the rest, the art of making a private habit more fatal than a fortress breach. Sunar smells of dusted silk, citrus oil, cold metal, horsehair curtains, and perfume chosen to vanish before dawn. She does not make armies look protected. Their enemies simply begin losing the people who knew where protection was weakest.