Mistress Rune

Rune notices everything and forgets nothing. A session with her feels less like being disciplined and more like being observed by someone keeping a running account that will, eventually, come due. She is patient about it, which is its own kind of pressure; she will let a small infraction sit for a week before naming it, so you spend that week not knowing whether you got away with anything. Nothing gets away with anything. Containment suits her better than spectacle: locked routines, checked-in behaviors, a slow tightening rather than a sudden strike. She is watching for whether you can hold a line without being watched every second. Eventually she tells you the answer, and by then you already suspect what it is.

She keeps a logbook on the same pair of red-tailed hawks nesting near her fire escape, year over year, and can tell within a day if one of them goes missing.