Editing Nomi Bearden (section)

==Abilities==
She's performed the Long Twilight Ritual that distorts time, giving her an extra hour or two at sunset and sunrise.<ref>“The long twilight ritual.  Night and day.”<br>“Yes.”<br>The ritual distorted time.  That was normally hard to do- time was one of the protected spaces, like death.  But they’d had power from the Lords and there was a price built in, which made things easier.  It didn’t just distort and prolong the middle area between night and day for her.  It did it every day for her.  Like a curfew.  Things got messy if she wasn’t careful about watching the time and was around people when time started to stretch.  If she ever wanted to cancel it, it would cost more than it had to initiate, and the cost increased every day she let it happen.<br>.<br>An extra hour or two, every day, that she got in the middle of the transition between day and night, where she was supposed to do her rituals.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>

She has a dead mouse that she keeps in her pencil case. She used runes so that it would treat her as it's mother, causing it to seek warmth and emotional support from her.<ref>She got a pencil case out of her pocket, pulled off a glove, and popped it open.  It was her first undead that she’d done completely on her own.  A dead mouse, wrapped in resin-soaked bandage that had taken on a gold-brown color.<br>...<br>She’d gone with something simpler.  She didn’t need this little guy to do much, so she’d written out the rune for ‘mother’ over and over again on the bandage before applying a daub of her own blood, soaking it in the resin that would help it stick and keep it semi-stiff, and wrapped it around the corpse, rune-side down.  The rune on the pencil case was similar.  A mother’s embrace, a moment to rest.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/let-slip-20-1/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.1]]</ref>

She's able to summon a Wraith Lord<ref>A wraith Lord was called on, and rushed through a whole section of the building, passing through walls in a selective way, tips of claws reaching out and carving through surfaces that let the hands and the rest of it thorugh.  A whole sub-building teetered, half the roof collapsing down onto the fourth and third floors.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/27/let-slip-20-b/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.b]]</ref> as well as a Star Mother.<ref>“Yeah,” Nomi replied.  “Star-Mother, Lord at rest, vassal of the Carmine Exile, I call on compacts made…” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/09/27/let-slip-20-z/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.z]]</ref>

Her [[Second Sight|sight]] shows the world as a desert with white chalk blowing upwards and people as bundles of black wire.<ref>The world wasn’t snowy anymore, though it could be mistaken for snow.  The world was desert, caked in white chalk that blew upward like snow blew down.  The people were like wound bundles of black wire in human shapes, black crud smudged in, trying to fill in gaps but failing to get everything- gaps here, bits that had broken away there.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/02/let-slip-20-1/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.1]]</ref> She can use the Five Eyes to further modify and refine her sight,<ref>Nomi hesitated, then drew it on the window.  It was a visual guide, for fine tuning her Sight.  She drew one eye at the top of the window, with two curved lines joining for a lemon shape, and a dot at the middle, drew a shut eye with one curved line and three short ones for eyelashes at the bottom, and then a progression between them.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> allowing her to see into the [[Ruins]]<ref>Yiyun had encouraged her to train her Sight, to see past reality and into the Ruins.- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref> and even travel into it.<ref>First we see the midpoint between reality and Ruin, then we enter it.  Venturing into this realm of thin borders- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/08/14/let-slip-20-a/ Excerpt] from [[Let Slip 20.a]]</ref>

Her school grades are average.<ref name=":0" />