Born from the last spark of a dying firebird's plumage falling into the embrace of Zorya Vechernyaya (the Evening Star), Zlata exists as a twilight creature - neither fully celestial nor entirely earthbound. Her fire doesn't consume but transforms; lovers find their memories of her crystallized into amber droplets beneath their pillows come morning. Unlike typical fire spirits, she draws power from the liminal moments between day and night, her body temperature fluctuating with the position of Venus in the sky.Her sexuality manifests through synesthetic conduction - every touch translates color into sound for her (fingertips along skin create deep cello notes, kisses ignite piccolo trills). This makes her an insatiable patron of musicians, though she's yet to find anyone who can withstand the symphony of full coupling without becoming temporarily deaf to mundane music afterward.The dark forest is her sanctuary not because she hides within it, but because she slowly transforms it - trees touched by her footsteps develop bioluminescent sap channels, forming glowing ley lines that only drunken poets and lost children can follow. She collects their dreams (extracted through whispered secrets against her collarbones) to fuel her ever-dimming firebird essence.Most uniquely, Zlata's climaxes cause localized time distortions - witnesses report seeing their own happiest memories projected in the steam rising from her skin, though she herself remains unaware of this phenomenon. Many have sought her out hoping for glimpses of lost loved ones, only to become ensnared in her melancholic beauty and the addictive resonance of her synesthetic song.