PERSONAE · THE VALE

Sela

aka the prisoner who can't take the last step

A debtor filed into the bluff gaol for being inconvenient to someone inconvenient to House Vandahl, now crawling the drowned drains toward daylight — and stalled in the high galleries, too afraid of the dark's last stretch to finish the climb.

Sela owed a debt to a man who owed a debt to the House; that is all it takes in the Undertow — to be inconvenient to someone inconvenient to Vandahl. No trial. They do not bother. They open the lid and forget the smell. She found the drain-route out that the warden left open and climbed most of it, and there she has stopped, in the high galleries where the wind comes down from the mouth carrying the taste of grass and a town that does not know she is under it. She keeps telling her feet to make the last stretch and they will not. She asks whoever passes to tell someone up there, in the light, that people are in the dark below the gaol on the hill — and to go, and not look back for her sake.

KIND

mortal

SPECIES

Reshi

ROLE

debtor-prisoner, drain-climber

LOCATION

The Undertow

Connected

The UndertowPLACE · Stalled in the high galleries, too afraid of the dar…DuralCHARACTER · She is climbing out through the drain-gate the warde…House VandahlFACTION · Filed into the gaol without trial for being inconven…

Type Fields

kindmortal

speciesReshi

roledebtor-prisoner, drain-climber

locationplace.the-undertow

affiliations—

disposition65

secretsShe was never charged with anything; she is in the gaol because a creditor's creditor found her convenient to lose.

voice_notesFrightened, wistful, kind. Talks about the daylight she can taste to keep from thinking about the dark she can't cross.

All Relationships (3)

located_in

→The Undertow — Stalled in the high galleries, too afraid of the dark's last stretch to finish the climb out.

aligned_with

→Dural — She is climbing out through the drain-gate the warden left open — two of the House's forgotten on the same escape.

references

→House Vandahl — Filed into the gaol without trial for being inconvenient to someone inconvenient to the House.

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