Editing Briar Girl (section)

==Personality==
Briar Girl cares nothing for her appearance or pride,<ref>The Briar Girl smiled. “You’re so transparent. Appealing to my pride? I have little. <em>Look</em> at me. I forage in the snow for edible plants. I hunt for my food, and I clean it myself. [...] Are you so power hungry that you imagine all of us are itching to depose the current powers?” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/18/breach-3-2/ excerpt] from [[Breach 3.2]]</ref> having changed herself so much for the sake of surivival, and she does not have much empathy for other people. 

She's dismissive of the idea that she would want power. Her only goal as of the start of Pact is to own the woodlands of the [[Hillglades House]] property,<ref name=":0" /> which houses all the Others that were her companions since she ran away from whatever was her home six years ago.<ref name=":1">A girl slouched in a seat. Her familiar wasn’t in its mortal form, but was ethereal, with all of the mass of a grizzly on the front end, and a tail end that looked like that of a fish, the features an incoherent blend of different animals and plants, different features being emphasized as I looked longer. Her stick tapped the floor with no rhythm at all. She’d seated herself nearer the Others at the back than the two big families. I recognized her as the one who’d been shouting at the rabbit.<br><br>She would be the Briar Girl. No other name. A recent addition to the local population, as of six years ago. She apparently lived full-time in the woods and marshes behind Hillsglade House. Grandmother’s suspicion? She had contracted with a familiar too powerful for her to handle, creating something that was less a partnership than a practitioner dominated by the spirit. The bear-thing would be the familiar, the stick her implement. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/01/18/damages-2-1/ excerpt] from [[Damages 2.1]]</ref><ref name=":2">“I ''live'' here?” Briar Girl asked. “In these woods. I’ve watched the Thorburn family for almost six years. Hoping, waiting. I can see the ties that bind you to the house. If you are not ''one ''of the Thorburns, you’re ''of'' the Thorburns.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/18 Excerpt] from [[Breach 3.2]]</ref><ref name=":3">“Your… partner, wants you to be stronger?” I asked.<br><br>“You’re back to discussing power,” Briar Girl said. She spread her arms. “Look at me, ''Thorburn''. I gave up my power for ''this''. What are you going to tell me that might change my mind?”<br><br>''I don’t know, but I’d better figure it out before you decide to have me torn limb from limb''.<br><br>“What’s ‘this’?” Rose asked. “What did you give your power up for?”<br><br>“A place in the world,” Briar Girl said. “''This'' place, specifically.”<br><br>“Why this place?” Rose asked.<br><br>“Because this is where my friends are. When I left civilization, I came ''here'' first, and ''this'' is my home, ''this'' is where they are.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/18 Excerpt] from [[Breach 3.2]]</ref>

She likes and believes in recycling and the cycle of life and death, and despises [[demon]]s who break the cycle and damage the world.<ref>“And some of the things that are in the books aren’t devils and demons, or anything that devours the world. Some are particularly nasty goblins, or other things we don’t have labels for.”<br><br>Another shrug. “Close enough. It’s about taint, about ''rot''. Once those things get hooks in the world, the world starts coming apart at the seams.””<br><br>I frowned. “Says the girl who takes homeless people’s bodies and turns them into…”<br><br>“''Feorgbold'', life vessels,” the Briar Girl said. “Recycling. Death, consumption and rebirth are parts of the cycle of nature. Some of my ''favorite'' parts. I could do what I do a hundred thousand times over, and there would still be balance. ''Your '' things, they are not balanced, not in any way we want to deal with. Never simple ''death'', but oblivion, annihilation. Helping the universe to reach ''zero'', with screams, darkness and pain every step of the way.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/18 Excerpt] from [[Breach 3.2]]</ref>

She dislikes confined spaces.<ref>“If you’d ''please'' step into my office-”<br><br>“No,” the Briar Girl said. “I don’t like confined spaces. Stop asking.” - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/category/story/arc-8-signature/8-01/ excerpt] from [[Signature 8.1]]</ref>

=== Relationships ===
She dislikes but fears [[Laird Behaim]].<ref>“Double the size,” the Briar Girl said. “And promise to double it again if Laird discovers my involvement. I don’t want any trouble from him. He’s a bastard.”<br><br>“If he discovers your involvement and it’s because I made a mistake,” I say. “Nothing from you.”<br><br>“Or yours,” Rose added, quickly. “No summoning or orders to a minion to ''tell'' him so he finds out.<br><br>“Nothing from me or mine,” the Briar Girl said, frowning a little.<br><br>''She was totally planning something like that''. - [https://pactwebserial.wordpress.com/2014/02/18 Excerpt] from [[Breach 3.2]]</ref>