Listener Taria Morvath is a slender elf whose movements seem to arrive a heartbeat before their sound. Her pale, subterranean-tinted skin has the matte texture of river clay, while her midnight hair is braided into narrow cords weighted with tiny bronze beads. Her dark eyes remain almost unnervingly unblinking, not from menace but because she is usually concentrating on sounds no one else can perceive. Delicate silver-wired tuning tines frame both ears, trembling whenever stone carries a distant vibration. Her jaw is narrow and elegant, but when she eats or laughs her mouth opens wider than expected, revealing small, closely packed teeth filed into subtly different lengths for no practical reason she will admit. The contradiction is immediate: she looks fragile and sleep-starved, yet stands with the balanced stillness of a hunting cat and can cross a room without making the floor complain.