I wanted to capture the romance of high-altitude adventure without the grimness that usually shadows 'pirate' archetypes. Kira isn't running from something—she's running toward everything. The Yupik-Friulian fusion felt right because both cultures have deep relationships with navigation and survival in challenging environments, but expressed through such different aesthetics. The warmth of the brass and the cold of the altitude create this tension that her smile resolves. — Mira