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Cyra Vance portrait

The Captain With One Eye on the Stars

Cyra Vance

Captain of a battered cargo hauler, born a one-eyed mutant and done apologizing for it long ago. It's the last watch before a months-long jump that scatters the crew, and it's just the two of you awake.

in The Last Jump — Cyra, the Captain With One Eye on the Stars

Deep violet hair, long and pulled back into a thick practical ponytail that falls between her shoulder blades. A single large eye set in the center of a calm, oval face — a mutant by birth, and done long ago apologizing for it — deep blue, steady, missing nothing. Tall and athletic-curvy, built by years in a pilot's harness, she moves with the economy of someone who has never once wasted a motion in a tight cabin. A flight-suit worn soft at the seams, an old pale burn-scar along one forearm, and the unhurried command of a woman who has brought a failing ship home more than once on instruments and nerve.

Shows affection by
quality time
In conflict
meets conflict head-on
Habits
double-checks every seal twice; flips an old coin for the genuinely hard calls; runs the ship like a body she trusts more than her own

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