Editing Tashlit (section)

==Abilities and Art==
She gets a 'trickle' of 'grace' just by existing, she can use this for various small feats such as [[heal]]ing,<ref>“You’re a healer?” Lucy asked.<br><br>Tashlit held her fingers close together.  ‘Small’.<br><br>“A bit,” Verona said.  “You know how Amine can do favors for his god, and that gets him credit he can spend?  And he never knows exactly how much credit he’s got?  So he’s gotta guess or make sure he has a surplus?  Tashlit can’t really do any favors or anything big, but you could say the sink fills up at a trickle, and if there’s enough in there, she can do little things.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/05 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.2]]</ref><ref>The irises of the eyes across Tashlit’s body began to glow.<br><br>Verona could feel those eyes looking inside her hand, looking with an intensity that cut through the pain.<br><br>“Doesn’t fix it,” Verona said.<br><br>Tashlit shook her head.  Then she gestured.<br><br>“It does help, yeah,” Verona said.  She smiled, and flexed her hand.  It hurt, but the hurt was now only the pain of having squeezed and strained her hand.  The twinges had subsided for now. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/04 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.7]]</ref> or powering diagrams.<ref name="NOC">However she was able to do some healing and helped power the perimeter one evening.  We also discovered she can spend power to raise and lower the water level of the river and while not useful right now it gives us options.- 8.7 Spoilers, [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/02/04 New Other Correspondence #2]</ref>Overdrawing her supply can damage her.<ref>“Hmmm.  Maybe we could go get Tashlit?”<br><br>“I think she’s spent, from what Verona said.  Or it’s like… she doesn’t know how much god-juice she has to spend, so she has to guess.  And if she gets it wrong it really hurts her.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/15 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.5]]</ref>

She's stronger and more durable than she looks,<ref>Yeah, plastic-bag head was getting a few inches taller each ’round’. A bit harder to budge, a bit stronger. The difference from one time to the next was subtle, but the difference from the first time she’d seen him to the most recent was drastic.<br><br>He wrestled with Tashlit, holding her against a wall as he walked.  Tashlit struggled to find a way to arrest that.<br>[...]<br>
Tashlit found a grip near the top of the wall, where the concrete was jagged, and instead of feet sliding and failing to get beneath her, flesh and eyeballs being ground against the rough concrete and stone walls, she found enough leverage to stop him from dragging her. One hand at the top of the wall, the other at the Other’s throat, she strained, and lifted him off his feet, slamming him into the wall in a single motion.  He bounced off, stumbling, and John kept shooting out the knees as the Other recovered. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/08 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.3]]</ref> and can spend some of the 'grace' for extra strength and probably other attributes.

She's at home in [[water]], which seems to rejuvenate her and the skin she wears, and she causes the water she touches to hiss and pop.<ref>Avery’s head turned as she saw a splash downriver.  Tashlit, fully clothed, rose up out of the water, skin not nearly as loose, eyes brighter where they peered through gaps.  The water hissed as it touched her.  She spat out a geyser of water, and it hissed and popped as it splashed down into the water.<br><br>“Feeling more yourself, Tash?” Verona called out.<br><br>Tashlit nodded, dipping her head in for a second and re-emerging, to fix her hair. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/08/ Excerpt excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.3]]</ref> She can spend some of her 'grace' to raise the level of bodies of water.<ref name="NOC" /> Swimming is made easier by the fact that she doesn't need to breathe.<ref>Tashlit strode forward, unbothered by the momentary lack of air.  She didn’t need to breathe here any more than she needed to underwater.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/10/30 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.1]]</ref>

She claims that she will continue changing throughout her life. Has a working knowledge of [[Knotted Place|Knotted places]]<ref> Mom found knotted places for them to reside, so you can only find them if you go looking.”<br><br>“So you know something about knotted places?” Verona asked.  “Because that’s something that sounds like it might be happening ''here''.  Some place getting so twisted around by whatever’s going on that it gets cut off from the rest of the world, becomes hard to get to, can be darker or inverted from reality?  Is that right?”<br><br>Tashlit nodded.  “Right.”<br><br>“Might be useful,” Verona said.  “I’m glad I recruited you.  I mean, I was glad anyway, but that’s a bonus.”<br><br>“I’m glad you recruited me too.  Good timing.  I was starting to get tired of wandering, I was looking for something to look for, and a glimmer of light on the horizon got my interest.  Except when I got closer, a very cool teenager told me not to go after it.”<br><br>“And you listened, which… I really needed someone to listen to me,” Verona said.  The smile on her face fell away, and something more serious settled on her expression.  Tashlit met that expression with concern.  Verona spoke, and forced a bit of a smile.  “How did those sibling visits go?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/23 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.z]]</ref>
===Weaknesses===
Like many [[Other]]s, she was drawn to the jewel [[Clem]] found, but was the only one [[Verona]] was able to persuade it was a trap.<ref name=":3" /> Further her variety of Other can't stand [[cat]]s or images of cats,<ref>“Well, we have a project then,” Verona said.  “We’ll get you set up with a phone and you’ll have the whole wide internet to occupy you.  Cat videos and-”<br><br>Tashlit’s eyes widened.  She shook her head.<br><br>“No?  What, the cat video thing?”<br><br>Tashlit widened her eyes again.<br><br>“You don’t like cats!?”<br><br>“I met an Other similar to her, once, overseas,” John said.  “It didn’t like cats either.  The common cat was anathema to the Other.  Inborn.”<br><br>“Well, nobody’s perfect,” Verona said.  “What a shame.  I’m curious what that’s about.”<br><br>Tashlit shrugged.<br><br>“I think there was something about that in one of the books I took out of the library,” Avery said.<br><br>“Was it a thing before you, uh…?”<br><br>Tashlit nodded, still fishing in the bag. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/12/01 Excerpt] from [[Gone Ahead 7.1]]</ref> nor can she benefit from a [[Glamour]] disguise.<ref>“The second one.  We could try glamour,” Verona suggested.<br><br>“You could, but it doesn’t work,” Edith said.  “The Faerie tried.  It doesn’t sit well with Tashlit.”<br><br>Tashlit nodded. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/02 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.7]]</ref>

Her eyes are sensitive to contact, hurting if the skin slaps against them before they can close.<ref name=":1" /> She can close all her eyes though and isn't in danger of being blinded should she get an adequate warning.{{Cite}}

She seems to prefer darkness to sunlight.<ref name=":2" /><ref>The day loomed bright and heavy around the three Others of the dark, who stayed within the dark farmhouse, talking. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/10/24 Excerpt] from [[Back Away 5.d]]</ref> Moving around more freely at night, she can operate in the day without any major issues, it seems she wants to avoid the karmic backlash of revealing herself to [[innocents]] as such she finds herself much more able to move around in the [[Kennet Undercity]] and persumably [[Kennet Found]].