Editing Nomi Bearden (section)

==Relationship==
Her mother was a drug addict,<ref>“My mom was- she was crummy to my brother and I, when we were little.  It was the drugs, right, you know?  Not really her.  I don’t want you to get the wrong idea.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> and would sometimes hit and scream at her children,<ref>“Did you hit and scream at your kid?”
- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> causing her brother to leave. Years later he returns home and attacked Nomi's mother, breaking her ribs, jaw and resulting in a head injury. She was hospitalised and after being released died from an overdoes.<ref>He put her in the hospital.  Like, everything she’d given us over the years, he held it inside, waited, and then gave his share back.  He didn’t see how she was trending better.  And he acted- he was like, smug.  Satisfied.  Like he’d done me this huge fucking favor.”<br>...<br>“He didn’t see she was trending toward better.  He just ruined it all, he acted so fucking- he broke her jaw.  Broke her ribs.  She needed surgery because of the way her ribs broke.  But he hit her head and that was the worst part because it, like-”<br>...<br>“-If she’d been okay and she’d had the head thing, maybe she could’ve come back okay.  It slowed her down.  How she moved, how she thought.  And she wasn’t going to come back from that and trend back to okay.  So she got out, didn’t even let us know or come pick her up.  And I guess, if you don’t use while you’re in the hospital for a couple months, then you use again…?”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/let-slip-20-1/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.1]]</ref>

She used the memory of her dead mum to get [[Yiyun Jen|Yiyun]] as a teacher. She considers her mentor to be one of the good instructors.<ref>Yiyun felt the most together of all the teachers.  Three of them had been interested in working under Yiyun.<br>Nomi hadn’t been nice about it.  She’d used her dead mom.  Necromancer, dead mom, connect the dots.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/let-slip-20-1/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.1]]</ref>

She envies [[Cameron Merson|Cameron]] after she got [[Seth Belanger|Seth]] as a teacher.<ref>And then Cameron had gotten Seth, immediately glomming onto him.-[https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>

She is creeped out by [[Lenard Lily|Lenard]].<ref>“Should we?” Lenard asked.<br>He creeped Nomi out so much.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>