#i really gotta get my ass sat and start talking about lydia ashmore huh.

[starlightwielded]

IN THE TINY TOWN OF HATCHETFIELD

A girl flees the moment she turns 18 with only a journal in hand, a handful of family jewels to sell, and a place in mind. Desperate for both a new start she is hopeful she won’t be found by her strange and cruel stepmother as well as learn more about where her mother was from, Ella flees to a tiny town on a small island in Michigan where things are not quite what she expected and, Ella herself, might have certain talents she never could have imagined. Years have passed, the answers she has been searching for have been vague, but she searches on, more than anything trying to keep away her step-family and start a new.

SOME SMALL HEADCANONS / IMPORTANT NOTES

though reaching hatchetfield at the age of eighteen, the majority of interactions that i will be writing are several years later when she has been in hatchetfield for several years, ella being in her mid-twenties.

her mother is a hatchetfield native ( and though she does not know this, so is ella, having been born there, her mother and father retreating to her father's home town before ella was even a year old, though ella will tell you happily she is from england ) who managed to get out after getting a bit in too deep upon investigating the oddities of the town and getting just a bit too close to information and attracting the attention of a certain organization, ella's mother deciding instead of continuing to stay in place, they needed to run.

both ella and her mother have a touch of the gift--- ella's mother's something much stronger before her death, ella's just a second sense, a guiding light (that sometimes, in her dreams, is a physical light that she can manifest or glows in her palm ) , so to say, an instinct, one that is much repressed and dulled from years of denial.

ella lives in a small apartment and is currently working through school very, very slowly. she currently works both at the library as well as an evening waitress job at miss retro, though she is frequently looking for small jobs wherever she can find them as well.