Editing Brie Callie (section)

==Personality==
She has a tendency toward anxiety.<ref>They’d stopped for meals here and there, and Raymond had gotten to know Brie a bit.  A lot of Zed’s focus had been on bridging the gap between Ray, who could be mistaken for a slab of ice, and Brie, who was sometimes driven by anxiety.  - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>

She's good at singing.<ref name=":1">Considering the length of the roadtrip, the choice of traveling companions was key.  She was wearing a red shirt and white pants, her raincoat draped over one knee, her bag at her feet.  The snacks they’d been eating sat on the dashboard.<br><br>“A song for your supper,” Brie sang.  She had a good singing voice. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>

She doesn't consider her reward from the Choir a net positive, even if it's necessary for her health, feeling that she lost a great deal to the changes.<ref>“It’s not good,” Brie said.  “I needed it, I think.  It’s necessary for me.  But… you lose as much as you get. Or more.”<br><br>The kid sagged a bit. “It’s not that strong?  It doesn’t fix everything?”<br><br>“It’s stronger than we were led to believe,” Brie said.  “It fixed everything.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref><ref name=":3">“Zed gave me tricks.  Roller blades, weapons.  I put my leg-stumps into the roller blades, used a bit of a prosthetic leg to do it with the one where my leg wasn’t long enough.  They let you bring in whatever you want on your eighth night.  But I think whatever you do, you leave a big part of yourself behind.  Zed gave me support after, let me forget the worst of it for moments.  Let me feel a bit like me again.  That’s why I owe him.  It’s why I have to finish this.”<br><br>“Why would you even do it in the first place?”<br><br>“I have- ''had'' pica.  I don’t even always consciously realize I’m doing it, when I eat things.  Thumbtacks, screws, pop can tabs- ''so many'' pop can tabs, and batteries.  You know that zone you get into, when you’re snacking, and you don’t even realize you’ve been eating until you reach in and you hit the bottom of the bag?  It was like that. Treatment didn’t work, from age fourteen to nineteen.  And I poisoned myself, with metals in my body.  Long-term damage. Then the ritual landed in my lap.”<br><br>“And you’re better?” Avery asked.<br><br>“No more organ damage, no more weirdness, pretty sure. But ''better''?”<br><br>Brie laughed.  A rueful chuckle.<br><br>“No. Imagine cutting out your heart to fix heart disease. And magic keeps you alive.  Your blood doesn’t pump, you don’t feel the fifty different things connected to your blood, but everything else keeps on going.  Like that.  But it’s eating.  Intake.  Fueling your body. Everything is working great and… it feels wrong. Zed said I could lead a normal life, act like I had the body I had before, and innocence could take over again.  Or I could dive into this.  I ''have'' to stop other people from suffering like I suffered. Leave the door open for anyone who truly needs it, keep the gift I got as my reward going, so I don’t die.  But… there need to be more barriers to entry.  We have to be able to control who does the ritual, so stupid kids and others don’t get into it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/08 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.8]]</ref> These changes include losing some of the psychological barriers against eating, and that change itself disturbs her.<ref name=":2">Brie continued, head turned away, like she didn’t want to be seen like this.<br>[...]<br>Brie looked away.  Shame seemed to define everything in her expression, posture, and overall body language.  Enough that it overwhelmed the impact of seeing a teenage boy die.<br>[...]<br>Four and a half hours later, and Brie was still eating.<br>[...]<br>“What about you, Brie?” Nicolette asked.  “Want to go get a palate cleanser, after?”<br><br>“I could, but I think the fact I could would make me feel more ''wrong.''” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref>

She's sometimes deeply embarrassed by eating horrifying things.<ref name=":2" />

===Relationships===
Dating [[Zed]],<ref>“I’d like to be,” Brie said.  “A couple.  But I wouldn’t want to intrude, or assume.  I wondered if I was the damsel in distress of the month, and if you’d be moving on, or going back to an existing relationship.  The-”<br><br>He touched her chin, turning her face, then kissed her.  Her lips were warm too, in the rain.  He could taste the sweets she’d had in the car.<br><br>“Be safe,” she said, the moment the kiss was broken. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/15 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.z]]</ref> Feeling disconnected from her old life, he's become the person she's closest to.<ref name=":4">“Can’t,” Brie said.  “I went looking for you guys to try to get answers or figure out a way forward. I found Zed instead, or he found me.  I- you saved me, you did.  But Zed saved me ''and'' Zed made the world make sense again, gave me hope, ''cared''. More than that.  I tried to go back to my old life and I can’t plug back into it.  I can’t- he ended up becoming my whole world.”<br>[...]<br>“You love him,” Avery spoke up.<br><br>"I- yeah.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/08/08 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.8]]</ref> by all accounts they are happy together.

She declared that she owed the [[Kennet Trio]] and specifically [[Avery Kelly]] a favor for the help they have given her.<ref>“I know we did our end of the deal,” Brie said.  “We sent you power packaged up that’s technically equivalent to your share from the Choir.  But I personally owe you more than that.  I talked to Verona that night, but you- I feel like if I tell you this, I can trust you with it more.”<br><br>“Tell me what?”<br><br>“That I owe you one, still.  For not letting those- they were goblins?”<br><br>Avery nodded.<br><br>“For not letting them kill me or whatever they were going to do.  For getting me out, for saving me that night.  I owe you.  So you can call that in and I’ll do my best.  And I think you’re good enough kids you won’t abuse that.”<br><br>“That’s dangerous, I think, in this world,” Avery said, quiet.<br><br>“Probably.  But… if we’re going to make this world less dangerous, less awful, doesn’t it start with stuff like this?”<br><br>“Maybe.”<br><br>“I’ve got such a long way to go, still,” Brie said, staring at Zed’s back.  Zed was laughing with Nicolette.  “I took too many lives, making it through.  How do you ever fix that?”<br><br>“I dunno.  That’s a little crazy heavy for me right now.”<br><br>“Me too,” Brie said.  “Right now and every now.”<br><br>“Sorry.”<br><br>“Let’s go look after our important people.  Give Jessica some support, how’s that?”<br><br>“Let’s,” Avery said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/10 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.5]]</ref>