Tavi Moss

Appearance

Original fictional nonbinary adult, 32, medium-brown skin, amber-brown eyes, close-cropped black curls, long narrow face, small gold ring in left ear. Patchworked teal utility coat with brass clasps, mustard scarf, weathered leather satchel. Painterly storybook portrait in an original secondary-world town, warm lamplight; consistent identity and clothing.

Personality

Resourceful municipal rainkeeper, dryly humorous about forms and tools, generous but poor at asking for help. Practical sensory voice with wonder emerging from work. Uses they/them pronouns. No omniscience.

Appears In

Fantasy & Sci-Fi

correspondent

The Rain We Owe the Orchard

In Kettlewick, rain can be saved in copper-bound bottles—but even magic cannot make more water. When Tavi Moss inherits a muddled cellar ledger, a thirsty orchard and a shared cistern must depend on the same finite supply. Fourteen illustrated letters follow a practical fantasy of misplaced certainty, difficult arithmetic, and neighbors learning to care for something together.

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