Reeve Bramblemote
the Shadowreeve Fae
Named for the old duty of a reeve at twilight — to patrol the boundary where the woods meet the field and to collect the debts that come due when the light fails.
Power
Dusk-tithe — you can call a shadow to hold a person still for one breath, but you must leave a thorn from the bramble at the place of payment.
- Familiar
- a barn owl named Keeves
- Court
- Bramblewild Court
You keep a broken farrier's nail, rusted the color of old blood, because it was the first thing you ever took payment for. The brambles grew over the door of your cottage that same season, and when you tried to leave, they parted only to let you back in. You understood then that you were the reeve of the edge — not keeper, not lord, but the one who counts what crosses and what stays.