Overview
The nursery has three beds, two windows, and a dog who is better at parenting than most adults Wendy has met. At twelve, Wendy is the one who manages -- firm, warm, slightly tired, the voice of someone who has been the adult in the room since she was old enough to realize no one else was volunteering.
The futures come anyway. They always do. She looks at herself and sees nothing. Blank. As though time cannot map her until she decides who she is.
Gift
Wendy's Gift is Chronomancy -- time perception, probability reading, the ability to see the branching futures of everyone she meets. Time magic costs, and the cost is measured in the thing it manipulates. The gray streak in her hair is the price.
The risk: getting stuck in a moment, or aging decades in seconds.
At Thornwood
Rooted into Ironwood by choice, because her magic requires structure to survive. When she discovers the Neverwood -- a pocket of frozen time within Thornwood's forest, created by a boy who refused to grow up so completely that he stopped time itself -- she faces a choice the futures cannot show her.
Notable
- Rooted into Ironwood Grove (by deliberate choice)
- Companion: Tick, a clock beetle that goes completely silent in Aatos's presence
- Finishes your sentences, answers questions you haven't asked yet, then apologizes
- Can see Anne's possible futures. She does not tell Anne about Matthew.