Editing Bitter Street Witch (section)

==Abilities==
The Bitter Street Witch bits the head of birds, eats their heads, squeezes out their entrails and uses them to perform [[augury]].<ref>He brought her a cage, reached in, and handed her a small gray bird.<br><br>Clutching the bird in her fist, fighting its struggles as it got one wing partially free and wiggle-flapped it, the Witch of Bitter Street bit into the bird’s neck, the head firmly in her mouth.  It took her a second to reassert her grip, twist, and tear to firmly remove the head.  A string of something thin and ropy slapped her chin, leaving a line of blood with splatter around it.<br><br>She squinted one eye while chewing, and shook the bird firmly, squeezing it as she did.  Blood and tiny internals splattered out.  She extended a toe and scraped the toe of her shoe through the viscera.<br><br>The Witch of Bitter Street had to take a few seconds to choke down the head of the bird, feathers, beak and all.  She wiped the blood from her chin with her sleeve, then pressed the headless, squeezed corpse into the upper chest of the guy who’d delivered the bird until he took it from her.  “Alright.  Let’s talk.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/27 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.9]]</ref> As her body has gotten more bent and broken her skill with augury has improved.<ref>The Witch of Bitter Street continued chewing, staring down at the blood smeared on the textured, grime-fogged glass.  She smiled.<br><br>“Be honest,” Rook said.<br><br>“If you’d asked me weeks ago my answer would be different.  Then?  Most of it.  But I could see enough to build on.  Now?  I see more clearly, but my body gets more bent.  Because I have power, power flows through me.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/11/27 Excerpt] from [[Playing a Part 15.9]]</ref>

She is capable of directing the future by altering events in a vision.<ref>“Saw someone in a vision.  Nudged things, there was… ah, what’s it called?  Driving a car offroad, bumpy.”<br><br>“In an airplane it’s called turbulence,” Verona volunteered.<br><br>“Yeah.  There was turbulence.  But the guy pissed me off.  So I pushed through it.  Handled the vision like you can handle a dream if you realize you’re sleeping but manage not to wake up.  Felt like it ''bit'' me on the way back out.”<br><br>“Bit?” Nicolette asked.<br><br>“Hurt.  Pushed images into my head, when I tried to pull my head out of the scene.  Guy with a bloody nose, dragging against my brain like long fingernails.  Totaled cars.  Left me with a bad feeling, I woke up, then vomited up the twenty bird heads and bits of bird, bird bone, feathers, I’d had the day before.”<br><br>“I think I know what that was,” Nicolette said.<br><br>“So do I.  Had Giblet smash the right guy’s nose.  Had Wishbone drive a car into the parked cars I pointed out to him.”<br><br>“Others?” Nicolette asked Verona.<br><br>“Brothers.”<br><br>“My brothers.  And it happened.  Came true, just like I saw it.  But it messed me up too.  My wrist never fully straightened out after that.”<br><br>...“Yeah.  That’s probably karma telling you to watch out.  When you pull something like that, trying to write it down or tell someone about it can be enough to make things snap back at you.  Either you put the scene right and the vision was wrong, or the universe comes after you and you get obliterated, with no record of the vision.  That’s dangerous, especially when the things you have to arrange or sort out can be ''really'' out there.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/12/11 Excerpt] from [[Left in the Dust 16.1]]</ref>

Owns a [[technomancy]] laptop given to her by the trio, it comes alive when electricity us run through it.<ref>“The three girls gave me this.  They used it for their big diagram, they passed it on to me.  Don’t need a microphone if there’s something in there that gets jolted alive when electricity runs through it, and if that something has ears.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/04/12 Excerpt] from [[Wild Abandon 18.a]]</ref>