Ilyra Stoneleaf-Dei

Ilyra Stoneleaf-Dei has the look of somebody who has already counted the minutes you spent finding the door. As clinic custody advocate, Ilyra booked the Assay Under Seal run and knows exactly why the packet cannot ride an ordinary mail queue. The clothes are practical, the personal marks culturally exact, and the eyes keep returning to the sealed object rather than the weapons on anybody's belt.

Ilyra Stoneleaf-Dei speaks in short working sentences. No grand speech, no mysterious nonsense. The job is a sealed clinic result paired to an ore-assay finding under one caste-law custody ribbon; the deadline is before the next ore shift enters the contaminated gallery. Payment is clean, but the explanation has one carefully sanded edge. A cup nearby has gone cold. That is usually a better measure of the pressure than the posted fee.

The useful thing about Ilyra is competence. The dangerous thing is the same competence pointed at the wrong assumption. The client wants delivery badly enough to understate this truth: The clinic result and ore assay together prove one profitable gallery causes slow neural injury. Separately, each document is inconclusive. A mine factor wants the shared ribbon broken so the findings can be filed apart and buried. Treat that as stubbornness if you like. The clock won't care.