Editing Yiyun Jen (section)

==Chronology==
She was born in [[Wikipedia:Wuxi|Wuxi, Jiansu province]], and as such she's multilingual.<ref name=":5"/> Later attempted to get [[Canada|Canadian]] citizenship.<ref>“I was born and raised in Wuxi, in the Jiansu Province.  I emigrated.  I was in the process of becoming Canadian when things caught up with me.  I was forsworn, the process interrupted.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>

Her daughter was raised to be virginal, having never cried, sweated, bleed or had sex. This was done so that they could execute her and raise her as a powerful [[undead]].<ref>“My daughter was raised to be a virgin, and kept secure by my family.  A penthouse apartment at the top of one of the city’s skyscrapers, with a literal walled garden inside the four exterior portions, which had her room, accommodations for servants, and everything else she needed.”<br><br>“Why?”<br><br>“Because my family is necromancers, and it was their plan to raise her to a fair age, execute her in a way that preserved her virgin state, and then raise her as a powerful higher undead under the family’s control.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> Yiyun rescued her and fled the country but her family tracked her down and came after her, in an desperate effort to prevent them Yiyun cut her daughter, breaking the [[Forsworn|promise]] she'd made to keep her virginal and foiling her families plans.<ref name=":0">“We escaped.  I took her with me, leaving an undead as a decoy.  We fled the country.  I couldn’t bleed her and make her useless to them because of oaths I’d sworn before I gave birth to her.  Even if I could, it would have traumatized her.  Anything that disrupted her natural state would have, unless it was very careful.”<br>“Could you set it up so someone else bled her?”<br>“No.  Not directly, even in thought.  But there were opportunities… and she skirted them.  By that point, at that age, she lived a blessed existence.  Karma guided her from harm.  But I traveled, came here.  New identity.  I tried to leave no traces.”<br>“And it didn’t work?”<br>“It didn’t work.  I said before, the car, for me, it’s relief.  It means you’re getting away.  You’re safer if you’re moving.  But stay still too long- we remained at one place for a year, while I tried to get our citizenship.  They sent their workings after me and my daughter.  There was no stopping it.  I’m good at what I do, but I was up against my entire family, my daughter excepted.  In the last moments before they separated us, I cut my daughter, breaking the oath… and ruining her for their purposes.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> Afterwards Yiyun was taken by her family and put in captivity,<ref>“It was.  Even more because the building was hard to get to.  The building is fenced in by stone walls, there’s a garden path leading to the main house, servant houses and other buildings on the sides.  And taking that path, if you went just a few months ago, you’d have to pass by decorated wood cages.  Open to the air, roof above.  Glass was put up in the winter, screens in the spring and summer.  Bench, not bed.  Little else.  A hole that was to be used at night only, for the bathroom.  It was like being an animal in a cage in a zoo.  To get to and from the house, you’d have to pass by the Forsworn on display, a reminder of what happened when crossing the family.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> with her daughter in the cage opposite, now turned into a lesser undead to torment her.<ref name=":1">“It was.  Even more because the building was hard to get to.  The building is fenced in by stone walls, there’s a garden path leading to the main house, servant houses and other buildings on the sides.  And taking that path, if you went just a few months ago, you’d have to pass by decorated wood cages.  Open to the air, roof above.  Glass was put up in the winter, screens in the spring and summer.  Bench, not bed.  Little else.  A hole that was to be used at night only, for the bathroom.  It was like being an animal in a cage in a zoo.  To get to and from the house, you’d have to pass by the Forsworn on display, a reminder of what happened when crossing the family. [...] On the other side of that path, ten feet from the cage, there was another matching cage.  They didn’t make her a higher undead.  They killed her, then made her a lesser one.  A- if you imagine a zombie, you wouldn’t be far off.  Preserved.  Crafted to challenge me, condemn me for every mistake I made as a mother, guardian, and caretaker.  The cut that was meant to sever her from my family’s clutches traumatized her.  They crafted her to have her carry that trauma, feel it, and let me know it, weeping over the pain, asking me why I did it, over and over.  Never sleeping, never stopping, never listening.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>

When the [[Charles Abrams|Carmine]] raised up and created [[The Bloody Lords|his Lords]] they attacked her family and freed Yiyun.<ref>“The Carmine Exile… saved you?” she asked.<br><br>“The Lords moved in, taking over the region.  The family didn’t bend, they were broken.  He appeared before me as the house and its grounds were torn apart and burned.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/let-slip-20-1/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.1]]</ref> He restored her ability to practice, forgiving her forswearence.

Participated on the attack on the [[Whitt Family]] home along with the other teachers and [[St. Victor's practitioners|St. Victors practitioners]].<ref>- [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref>

During [[Edith James|Edith's]] spirit surgery she was trapped inside the [[Alcazar]] along with her student [[Nomi Bearden]],  [[Avery]] and [[Julette]].<ref>“I guess the moment you stopped being convenient, you two outlived your usefulness,” Julette said. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/let-slip-20-z/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.z]]</ref> After escaping She negotiated a deal for the group and the [[Kennet Trio]] to leave each others families alone.
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