Editing Countdown Cassandra (section)

==Abilities==
Her nature is heavily tied to Fate and Disaster, as such she is inevitable and can't be hurt or feel pain.<ref>The collision barely hurt.  It didn’t hurt ''her'', at least.  She wasn’t the sort of force or entity that cared about injury.  She was tied into inevitable forces and into stories.  It didn’t serve the story to have any bullet or attack practice stop her and it didn’t serve Disaster or mother Fate, either. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref>

She's able to track, encourage and strangle connections.<ref name=":0">The Countdown Cassandra was among those who worked to strangle the connection.  She was an urban legend, a story passed around by way of word of mouth.  She could track that and encourage or strangle it. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref>

The Countdown Cassandra works by appearing before a group of people with a clock counting down to disaster in her eyes. She gives three warning and there is always one person that manages to escape.<ref>“There is always one who comes out unscathed, because they heard me, they listened, and they took action,” Countdown Cassandra whispered to the girl. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> Then disaster strikes, sometimes killing dozens.<ref>As her urban legend went, she appeared to people.  Sometimes she was alone and lost.  Other times, she appeared as a specter, a person by the side of the road.  Always, the numbers in her eyes were noticed.  A countdown.<br><br>Always, there were warnings.  Usually three.  Tied to that countdown.<br><br>Often, because she chose her targets with care, people were tired, disheveled, and distracted.<br><br>One person would listen.  They would heed the warning, they would frequently try to warn others, or to figure out what the warning was about.<br><br>Such was the tale that Fate spun.<br><br>Disaster wrote the rest.<br><br>Lightning hit the house, very close to the television set.  A segment of wall came down, but did not break or do much damage.<br><br>Normally her efforts would have more of a lead-up.  The warnings would be more substantial and ominous.  The disaster could kill dozens. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref> Afterwards she ceases to be, remaining as a memory of the warnings she'd given.<ref>Lightbulbs shattered at the same time Countdown Cassandra faded from the foreground.  Message delivered, she ceased to ''be'', remaining mostly as a haunting reminder of the warnings she’d given.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/01/22 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.z]]</ref>