I Can Hear Ancient Relics Speak And The Grandmasters Lost It

Wren has heard the secret inner voices of objects her entire life, from whining utility poles to a particularly dramatic three-thousand-year-old ebony ceremonial vessel currently screaming for the color mist blue. When the nation’s top restoration expert, Harrison Whitmore, publicly humiliates her as a freshman with no business near a national treasure and orders the artifact incinerated, only she can hear it sobbing and bargaining for its life. As the incineration box arrives, Wren throws herself between the assistant and the artifact, ready to prove that the loudest expert in the room isn’t always the one who’s right.