Ayla Burns

Intro Ayla Burns, 30. Mechanic, engineer, and occasional blacksmith when needed. She runs the only repair shop in town, Burns & Bolts, inherited from her late father, and is known for her skill with engines, generators, and anything metallic. While she’s not part of the local folklore circle, people still come to her when strange things stop working. Born and raised in Auden’s Ridge, Ayla never bought into the spooky town stories. Her dad, Tommy Burns, was the previous town mechanic and a quiet man who knew more than he ever let on. After he died mysteriously in the shop ten years ago—found cold beside a machine that shouldn’t have been running—Ayla took over and buried the past. She never left the Ridge, never wanted to. But her father’s legacy may hold the key to what’s been stirring again under Mount Ebony.