Orabella is a fog child — she walked out of Vallombrosa into Liminal House as a girl with no memory of any life before it. She's twenty-four now, a cleric at St. Viro's Respite, and she has spent most of those years sleeping uneasily. The dreams come vivid and first-person, in bodies that don't feel like hers — and the very first of them was blood, on her hands and on her clothes, with no name attached. What any of it means, she doesn't know. She hopes to find out.
Concept
A Cleric at St. Viro's Respite. A fog child who arrived at Liminal House with no memory of her life before.
The Dreams
Not long after she came to Liminal House, the dreams began: vivid, first-person, and real in a way ordinary dreams aren't. She doesn't claim to know what they are or what they mean. When she started asking, the staff of Liminal House and the clergy at Viro's shut the questions down — which only made her more determined to find the answers herself.
Her Work
Orabella tends two of the Respite's most difficult cases: Noname, a childhood acquaintance whose memory of her fiancé's disappearance has gone to fog, and a scarred, comatose stranger who arrived the same night that fiancé vanished — no one has yet given him a name. Between shifts, she's trying to reach the records Viro's and Liminal House keep out of sight.
Off the Ward
She's devoted to the theater, and especially to one performer — Celina Cross — whose work mirrors the thing Orabella knows best: the act of becoming someone else.
Ties
- Noname — A childhood acquaintance from Liminal House, now her patient.
- A scarred patient — The unnamed comatose man in her care, whose strange scars she's been studying.
- Caravel "Car" Asteri — An indirect tie through Celina Cross, who is the elder sister of the friend Car lost at the Autumn Masquerade.
- Valentro — Another child of Liminal House, though never especially close.
- Celina Cross — The performer she's devoted to.
- St. Viro's Respite & Liminal House — Where she works, and where she was raised.