Chaos with a calendar invite
Aly can hold two phones, three emergencies, a coffee, a birthday reminder, and a collapsing production schedule at the same time. She will insist she is fine. She will also be on fire, spiritually if not literally.
Biography
Aly is a TV producer, which means she has spent years turning impossible deadlines into something people can watch after dinner. Among Claire's friends, she is the most human, and that matters. She does not bend matter or read minds. She does something harder: she keeps showing up.
Personality
Bright, frantic, affectionate, and sharper than people expect because they are distracted by how fast she talks. Aly feels things early. She notices emotional weather before the rest of the room admits the sky has changed.
Strengths
- Keeps people moving when everyone else freezes
- Remembers the human detail inside every crisis
- Turns chaos into a plan, then loses the plan, then solves it anyway
- Makes friendship feel active, not decorative
Role in the Story
Aly keeps the story emotionally alive. She reminds the magical world that ordinary human pressure can be just as intense as a curse.