Editing Alpeana (section)

==Personality==
As befits a Mare species, she seems to have a habit of sitting on people's chests, making it hard for them to breathe.<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":4" />

She's seemingly pretty content with her life.<ref name=":10" />

She dislikes political conflict within [[Kennet]] and tries to stay out of it.<ref>“Och, aye.  Tha business wit tha politics an’ tha ill blood.  Ah cannae abide by it.  Ah hope ye’re well.” <br>[...]<br>“Yeah.  And staying a bit away from the Carmine beast succession thing?”<br><br>“I’ve no part in tha, best I’m aware, and I dinnae want to.  Let what happens happen, an’ Ah’ll keep doin’ what ah need be doin’.”<br><br>“I hope it works out.”<br><br>“Ah’m hopin’ it at least doesn’t do any harm.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/back-away-5-2/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]
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She's uncomfortable with modern [[technology]] and sometimes unsure how to behave around it.<ref>“Alpeana,” Matthew said.<br><br>She shrank down a bit more.<br><br>"No surprises while I’m driving.  Please.”<br><br>She nodded.<br><br>“Ah’m not so good at these thin’s.  Used ta be we walked ta church and we walked back.”<br><br>“Trucks, you mean?”<br><br>“Aye, yes.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/back-away-5-2/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref><ref><!--messing with the phones-->[[One After Another 10.d]] </ref><ref>[[Gone Ahead 7.3]]</ref>

She finds [[Matthew Moss]]'s [[Doom]] frightening, especially when it's close to the surface.<ref>“We’re meant ta go left, here,” Alpeana said.<br><br>Verona knocked on the window.<br><br>“What!?” Matthew called back.<br><br>“Left turn!”<br><br>He turned.<br><br>“Are you scared of him?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Scared o’ tha ''Moira'', a wee bit closer to tha surface.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/06/back-away-5-2/ excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref> 

===Relationships===

She's friends with [[Maricica]],<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1">The woman with the wings hadn’t actually unfurled her wings.  She’d hopped down from the branch with them still wrapped around her.  She smiled in a way that suggested she had secrets as she glanced at Lucy, even as she wandered on her own.  The teenager with hair like the matted, moldy black stuff in a gutter stuck to the trees and stuck fairly close to the woman with the wings, crawling across branches and staying mostly hidden.<br>[...]<br>
The girl with the filthy hair moved like a spider did, her movements too quick and jerky, her body low to the ground.<br>[...]<br>Charles and the Others were there, in their arrangements, and she assumed friends stuck by friends.  John with one of the goblins and the giant.  The filthy-haired girl with the faerie with wings. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/lost-for-words-1-2/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.2]]
</ref> and lives in Maricica and [[Guilherme]]'s cave, sleeping there during the day.<ref>“Alpeana,” Maricica said.  “They woke you.”<br><br>The mare emerged from the dark, hair messier than usual.  She lurked at the very edge of the light that entered the cave, wincing at the brightness of it.<br><br>“Gotcha,” Lucy said.  “I got you, okay?  Relax, relax.”<
[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/16/stolen-away-2-3/ excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.3]]</ref><!--Took her betrayal hard.

"so useless"False Moves – 12.4
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Like all the [[Others]] of Kennet, she's sworn not to harm [[Lucy Ellingson]], [[Verona Hayward]] and [[Avery Kelly]] and to give them power.<ref name=":2">Alpeana’s mouth yawned open, and black fluid oozed out, multi-layered, thick with debris that could have been anything, but with shapes like rotted leaves turned black by a winter spent under the snow, or the stringy guck pulled out of drains.<br><br>
Her hair turned liquid, doing something similar, just in ''much'' greater quantities.  Drainstuff, rot, mold, mixed with liquid as thick and black as oil, refusing to flow straight down so much as it stuck to itself.<br><br>“I had a bad night.  I’m not in the mood for this,” Lucy said.  As the stuff reached down from the ceiling and toward her head, she grabbed a spare pillow and held it up in the way.  “You’re not allowed to hurt me, by the deals made.”<br><br>The stuff touched her sheets, just over her chest.  Heavy, soaking in and pressing down.<br><br>It touched her pillow, that she held up as a shield and barrier to keep it away from her face.  Strings, rivulets, and clumps oozed down around the edges, sides, and more of it piled on top, making the pillow difficult to hold up, even with both hands. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/lost-for-words-1-6/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.6]]
</ref><ref>“Provisions, of course,” Miss said, taking it in stride.  “We pledge 
you safety.  We will do you no willful harm to body or mind, and we will
 do what we can to give you a long and full life, and avoid barring you 
from such.  Agreed?”<br>
“Yes,” Lucy and Avery said, in near unison.  Verona was a bit late.<br>
“If enemies from without would stand against you, we pledge our 
intent to stand with you, those of us here available as bodyguards, 
soldiers, distractions, or counsel.  You three shall not be alone 
against any threat.  Agreed?”<br>
“Yes,” Lucy, Verona, and Avery said.  In sync this time.<br>
“We pledge to give you our power and our knowledge without 
reservation, provided that power is taken in goodwill and without undue 
harm, ''or'' taken with the will of the majority here.  Agreed?”<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/12/lost-for-words-1-2/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.2]]
</ref> Avery seems to find her cute.<ref name=":3">“Alpeana showed up in my room in the middle of the night.  She said 
she stopped by to see you two, too.  So you know, like… I assume your 
houses are locked up, but she’s showing up while you’re asleep.  Let 
that sit with you for a second.”<br>
“Was she nice?” Avery asked.<br>
“She was… Scottish, I think?  Didn’t expect that.  I think she said she spared me from an especially bad dream.”<br>
“Aww.”<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/lost-for-words-1-6/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.6]]
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She gave [[Verona Hayward|Verona]] a nightmare of being stuck in Kennet with her dad, left behind by [[Lucy Ellingson|Lucy]] and [[Avery Kelly|Avery]], taking drugs with [[Melissa Oakham]].<ref>- [[Back Away 5.2]]</ref>

She's delivered messages for [[Miss]].<ref name=":4">A white shape pressed into the curtain of black ''stuff'' that 
draped down from the pillow’s edges.  It took Lucy a second to realize 
it was a face, poking through, with eyes as dark as anything.<br>
“Ye’re due a nightmare, lassie,” the Mare said, her voice young, but thick with a Scottish burr.<br>
“No thanks,” Lucy answered.  The stream from above had eased up.  The
 curtain of dark liquid had pooled around her, soaking into her sheets 
and pillow, but now that what was coming from above wasn’t so thick, she
 could see that what had piled up on her stomach and chest was the rough
 silhouette of a person.  Alpeana’s face lifted up to find a home 
roughly where the head should be.<br>
“Yeh,” Alpeana said.  “Tha’s wha’ I thought.  I’ll spare ye that.”<br>
“Okay.”<br>
“Can’t go and say ye won’ have a bad dream now, but it won’ be a 
fancy Mare dream like ye might be havin’ if ye were’n protected.  I’m 
suppose ta pass on a message.”<br>
“Pass it,” Lucy said.  In her efforts to keep from freaking out, she 
was holding her head so rigid that her chin was rising by fractions.  
Her breath came in small intervals, with the weight on her chest.<br>
“Miss wants ta talk.  Get an update on yer findin’s and all tha’.”<br>
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/26/lost-for-words-1-6/ excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.6]]
</ref> As well as this, she immediately called upon Miss for assistance when she found the eyeless ghost in the old man's house.<ref name=":8">The back door opened.  All three girls jumped.<br>
But it was Alpeana.  She looked alarmed.<br>
“What’s wrong?” Avery asked.<br>
“Miss!” Alpeana called out.  “Miss!  Miss!”<br>

[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/06/23/stolen-away-2-5/ -Stolen Away 2.5]
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