Ayla

The left-hand pages are hers. Ayla grew up pricing the world: counting what things are really worth, finding the trick hidden inside every promise, trusting only what she can check twice. On a dying Earth the one currency that matters is a seat on a ship, and there is never enough of it. She is fighting for a place among the survivors, and learning, the hard way, what that place costs and who is left standing on the ground when someone else takes it.