Reed is the longstanding nickname of one of the eldest boys in the shanty town of Coven.
Four or five years older than Toby and Elka, he is the main authority figure when Noran is elsewhere or otherwise busy. Whenever bands of children are sent out from Coven to patrol its perimeter and scrounge for food and building materials, he is the lead scout.
Unlike Noran, he is gentle and patient with a wise head on young shoulders. Before he was sent into exile for being a ghostbait child (afflicted with the ability to summon Ghosts when under any kind of stress) he lived with his parents and twin brother in Corvin, Dal-Rhiatah. After the Test — something all children have to endure to find out if they are ghostbait or witchward — he was taken by the ghostmerchant to the Barren Plains and never saw his biological family again.
However, he was welcomed into Coven and gained a found family of children and adolescents with the same ability as him. Still, his lost twin is never far in his thoughts, especially because his Ghost-Bringing powers almost led to his brother’s death at an early age.
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