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Aurae blesses the Covenant as a shared growth toward light, comforts Darrow over Cassius, and stays as Diomedes's emissary to bridge the Daughters and Rim.
Aurae stands among Athena's Daughters at the Covenant meeting and steps forward when the uneasy signatories have exhausted their formal words. She speaks from the Garden teaching that Pinks study people like flowers and recognizes in Darrow, Diomedes, Athena, and Volga a sacred movement toward light: each represents people who want room for something more, unlike Lune and Grimmus, who pull and confine toward control. Her words give the treaty a moral language that its iron clauses lack.
Aurae remains in the Rim as Diomedes's emissary to the Daughters while he prepares to sail for the Core. Before Darrow departs, she thanks him for the way he saved Cassius's soul by making the lonely Morning Knight feel loved as a brother. She says Cassius did not need a woman's love but an aspiration beyond the obligation he felt to Lysander, and tells Darrow to remember that Cassius knew he was loved when he died. Her gentleness does not erase the loss, but it helps Darrow leave without mistaking grief for abandonment.
A slender, deerling-tall Pink with olive-dark skin, ever-changing blue-black hair, and ancient dark-pink eyes. She wears a scarf and goggles against the ash before uncovering her face at the treaty table.
Aurae is the Daughters' moral emissary, lending the Covenant its language of shared freedom and carrying hope between Diomedes's Rim and Athena's people.
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