Editing Snowdrop (section)

===[[Avery Kelly]]===
Snowdrop deeply admires and likes Avery,<ref>“How was Avery when you saw her?”<br><br>“Great. But she’s a real wimp when it counts.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/14 Excerpt] from [[Out on a Limb 3.1]]</ref> immediately taking to her as a friend when meeting for the first time.<ref>Mask- she tore it off, shook it violently, and shucked off the glamour she’d used. She donned the mask.<br><br>Hat. Same deal.<br><br>“That’s so lame,” the opossum girl said. “You look so uncool.”<br>[...]<br>“Odelia?”<br><br>“You have awful taste in names,” the girl said, walking backwards, expression getting worse and worse.<br>[...]<br>“I hope the wolf gets you like the other opossum said, lonely freak.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/07 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.9]]</ref> Snowdrop had no problem being sacrificed to help her even looking forward to it,<ref>“Happy you’re not getting sacrificed?”<br>“Yes.”<br><br>“Cool,” Nicolette said. “I don’t suppose you’d stick around, help?”<br><br>“Can do, if it screws with her.”<br>[...]<br>“I’m going to get some things to clean up. Do you need anything?” she asked the Other.<br><br>“Nah. Pretty happy right now.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/11 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.z]]</ref><ref>The person beside her let go of Avery’s hand. They didn’t move.<br><br>“You’re going to have me take your place at the end, guaranteed. Murderer. Idiot. And you want to look me in the eye?”<br>[...]<br>“I- I’m doing this to help people.”<br><br>“Right, and you aren’t doing it to help yourself any. No magical boons, no opening of doors. Sure, I believe you. ''Disgusting''. ''Loser.''<br>[...]<br>“Take longer to get your sentences out, murdering a-hole. Hesitate more. Let’s drag this out. We’ll postpone my horrible fate, okay?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/07/07 Excerpt] from [[Stolen Away 2.9]]</ref> and saw it as a meaningful death.<ref name=":1" /> Months after her initial creation she retains an instinctual understanding of Avery.<ref>Avery subtly gave Snowdrop a firm two taps behind the neck where the boys couldn’t see her fingers move. Again, Snowdrop looked up at her, slight smile on her face.<br><br>Avery pressed her lips slightly together, knowing Snowdrop was paying the most attention to her.<br><br>“Avery?” Snowdrop asked. She adjusted her grip on stuff she was still holding. “Can I ask you about something we talked about before?”<br><br>“Yes, of course,” Avery said. She glanced back, “Excuse me.”<br>[...]<br>“Did I do that wrong?” Snowdrop asked, quiet, as Avery dropped down to a crouch by her, setting the bags of stuff on the floor.<br><br>“That was great. Thank you.”<br><br>“I don’t know how your head works or anything like that,” Snowdrop said, biting her lip for a second. “But I understand this. What’s happening?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/24 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.9]]</ref>

Their initial relationship was due to Snowdrop being a sacrificial animal so by extension snowdrop is self-sacrificing when it comes to Avery and her own friends.<ref>“Ditch Avery, ride off into the sunset, steer clear of opossum males and trashy boys.”<br><br>“Gotta ''persist'' if you want that stuff, trashmouth.  Gotta live!”<br><br>“I know that!” she shouted.<br><br>''Stupid sacrificial animal''! he thought.  He didn’t say it.  Sacrificial animals got touchy about those sorts of things.<br><br>“So work harder at it, yeah!?” he told her.<br><br>“You don’t have to lecture me like I’m four months old!” the four month old opossum shouted.<br><br>“I was less than forty minutes old when I was figuring some of this out, so don’t give me excuses.”<br><br>She huffed, folding her arms. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/04/17 Excerpt] from [[One After Another 10.e]]</ref> She still has an appreciation for the importance of sacrifice.<ref>“I don’t believe in sacrifice,” Lucy said.  “Even for that.”<br><br>“I don’t either,” Snowdrop told her, peering between Lucy and Verona to look at the pages, before redirecting her attention to cabinets and things.  “Not that I have relevant experience.”<br><br>“I’m really sorry I was going to sacrifice you to the trail, Snow,” Avery said.  “We didn’t think you’d be like… aware.  You were just a dying baby.”<br><br>“It was uncool.  There wasn’t any greater purpose, you know?” Snow asked.<br><br>“Alright, with that reminder, I’m starting to think I hate the idea of sacrifice too,” Avery said, more to Lucy than Snowdrop.  Snowdrop fished in Avery’s bag and found a tennis ball, which she bit into experimentally. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/07/14 Excerpt] from [[False Moves 12.7]]</ref>