Editing Edith James (section)

==Personality==
The Girl by Candlelight is a conglomeration of various spirits and echoes related to fire and loss,<ref name="gbc">"Matthew followed a trail of small fires and sightings to me.  The ghost of a girl who suffocated on smoke in a house fire.  The emotions and spirits shed in a roadside, candlelit vigil for a teenage girl who died in a car accident.  A child’s pyromania, manifested in anxiety and confusion, cast away as the child grew up.  These things and other, smaller things found each other and were bound together.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref> bound together and currently residing in the body of Edith James, who suffered severe brain damage after a suicide attempt.<ref name="ej">“Seven years ago, a girl named Edith James tried and failed to end her life,” Edith said.  “She suffered severe brain damage and necrosis of the intestinal lining.  It wasn’t pretty, especially with the grief the family suffered in the wake of the attempt and the hospitalization.  There was next to nothing of her left, so… I moved in.  The two years I was learning to operate a brain and a body were excused as Edith James’ recovery.  Her family was overjoyed, and that fragment of her that remains inside this body is content that they aren’t grieving.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/05/16 Excerpt] from [[Lost for Words 1.3]]</ref>

As a spirit of fire she has a fondness for barbecue,<ref name=":7">“Let’s make the time later.  Dinner, barbecue if the weather’s nice, then a cuddle and a movie?”<br><br>“I’m likely to fall asleep halfway through if my stomach’s full.  Stupid human bodies,” Edith said, yawning.<br><br>“If it’s any consolation, you have a very nice human body, Edith James.”<br><br>She smiled, beckoning him to bend down.  Then she kissed him.  “Dork.”<br><br>“Go,” he said.  “Keep that body safe, keep yourself safe.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]</ref> drawing substance from it.<ref>“Edith’s in a bit of a funk, too, but it’s for such silly reasons that the mood is relatively good.  We had a very full day, and things aren’t quiet yet, but something resembling peace and equilibrium are…”<br><br>“We can see the way to get there,” Edith filled in, sounding like she was a few steps away from the phone.<br><br>“Why the funk, Edith?” Avery asked.<br><br>“Ugh,” Edith said.<br><br>“We had a big dinner planned using the barbecue pit outside, then the weather forced us to abort.  We had to put it all into containers for another night and do a pasta dinner instead.”<br><br>“You like your barbecue, huh?” Verona asked, sitting on the bed again.<br><br>“Edith, the body, needs rest to recuperate.  I like my big fires, and they serve the same purpose for me.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/14 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.6]]</ref> Similarly she has been known to smoke, quitting off and on.<ref>Cig is sponsored by Edith and myself.  Initially it was Maricica instead of me but Maricica became annoyed by the smell and there were other Others (covered in the next batch) Maricica could sponsor.  Edith has unfortunately picked up smoking again. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/01/28 8.a Bonus: New Other Correspondence #1]</ref>

Edith's Body is largely a vessel for the Girl by Candlelight though fragments of her make themselves known, such as being glad that her family isn't grieving.<ref name="ej"/>

===Relationships===
====[[Matthew]]====
Her common law husband, they have a genuinely loving relationship.<ref> - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/28 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.5]]</ref><ref name=":7" /> Her existence as a person is dependent on him given that he contains the Doom of the body she is residing in.

====The James family====
A large family with people who are driven and like what they do, the parents want to know if they're getting grandchildren anytime soon. Interacting with them grinds the Girl by Candlelight down.