Pretty lies & Empty eyes

Vale Wood has spent nine years learning how to survive without being seen.
Locked inside a psychiatric institution since the age of fourteen, she has mastered the art of observation, of mimicry, of control, of becoming exactly what others expect. Emotions are tools. Trust is a weakness. And people are predictable.

Until she meets L.

Brought into the Kira investigation for her ability to read others with unsettling accuracy, Vale finds herself facing the one person she cannot manipulate, and the only one who sees through every version of her.

He studies her.

She studies him.

And somewhere between truth and performance, something begins to shift.