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WOLF AND BELLOWS CHARACTER INTRODUCTIONS: YAEL KESSER

full name: yael lior kesser

age: seventeen

ethnicity: mizrahi jew of yemeni descent

role: 1 of 2 main protagonists, pov character

theme: the watchtower, sigimund

When magic returns to Plainview, Yael is the first to be afraid. 

Of course, she’s also been afraid her entire life. 

Once, there was a little girl who stood straight and silent at the barre each week. Yael would watch as her peers laughed and giggled around her, never joining them, only staring forward and doing her exercises as told. She was too nervous for the inevitability that she would say something wrong, that she might even hurt one of them if she lost her temper. It had happened before, a fury taking over that was so unlike the usual temperament of sweet, rational Yael. The last thing she wanted was to hurt anyone-- so she remained silent, kept herself in line. Always the smart one. Always in control. 

As she grew older, control grew increasingly difficult. She focused on ballet because it was disciplined, exact, no room for even a hair out of place. Yael could function as long as nothing in her life was left to chance, and nothing could be subjected to change. At one point, a doctor declared that she had Generalized Anxiety Disorder, and Yael had no reason not to believe him. So she started taking pills to help.

They didn’t actually help, but Yael pretended they did. It was a comfort to her parents. She could survive like this, just pretending to be a functional human-- she’d managed it this long, anyway. 

Now, with the arrival of her ex-best friend’s mysterious father and the return of magic to her once-quiet town, change is hunting Yael down whether she wants it or not. The world around her is changing, and so is she. Which, of course, begs the terrible question: can she survive it?

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