Malina Vermilwell
the Redspring Countess
Named for the vermilion spring that seeps through the cellar floor of the Vermilwell estate, a well that never runs dry and stains everything it touches the color of memory.
Power
You can drink a person's shadow as easily as their blood—one sip and you own their deepest secret, but the shadow remembers you and will claw its way back if you ever try to forget.
- Familiar
- A blind lamprey eel named Ash
- Bloodline
- House Vermilspring
You keep a single dried raspberry in a silver locket, the last fruit from the bush you planted as a mortal. It has not rotted in two hundred years, and you have not opened the locket in fifty—because you know the moment you do, it will turn to dust, and so will the last proof that you were ever anything but this.