Editing List of BHI Students (section)

==Silas Vanderwerf ==
16, [[Faerie Magic|Fae Magic]] (Winter).<ref name=":10" />

Likely did a [[Ritual]] related to Winter Fae that freezes and manipulates [[Connections]] within his immediate vicinity, which can have a huge social advantage.<ref>To Avery’s Sight, the connections from their huddle here were strained so tight that they almost vibrated. Between student and school. Friend and enemy. Between them and the two groups who wanted them on their side.<br>[...]<br>Connections. Avery could see that Silas Vanderwerf’s connections had a tint to them, and as she focused on it, she could see that the very rigid, intense connections had more of that tint. A fine creeping of black frost on the dark bands that extended from Silas and along the band, toward everyone he was interacting with. Her looking at the frost seemed to thaw it- but it also drew Silas’s attention. As if they’d always been there, but were turned sideways so she couldn’t see them, new bands extended from Silas’s eye level to the point she was looking at, then back to her. The frost was quick along that line. His eyes locked to hers, pupils narrow.<br><br>Under the guise of adjusting her top, aware she was still sweaty and sorta gross from the weekend spent in the workshop room, Avery reached for one connection, seeing if she could loosen one of those new connections. The edge of it cut the side of her finger, like sliding her finger along the length of a piece of paper. The chill at the band, even though it hadn’t crept all the way to her, made her finger go a little numb.<br><br>She turned off her Sight and the pain changed from being something physical to something like a glimmer of bad feeling when she thought back to an embarrassing moment, threading through her arm like a flinch, then into her stmoach. She wanted to retreat before that more intense frost got to her, but she didn’t want to look weak.<br>[...]<br>“So he studies Winter Faerie, right?” Verona asked.<br><br>They walked down the road to the town. Away from campus, toward the students who had escaped campus for a bit.<br><br>“Rigid, inflexible, imperious,” Lucy said.<br><br>“So this connection thing you’re describing,” Verona said, looking at Avery. “He wasn’t doing anything that pushed it?”<br><br>“Nope,” Avery said.<br>[...]<br>“There’s some practices that you do, and they’re rituals that change how things work,” Verona said.<br><br>“Like the Paths.”<br><br>“Like that, sure, but more… I dunno. More like you get benefits just for doing the ritual, and you don’t have to go anywhere. Maybe you deal with some people. Some of it was in the collector stuff we looked up.”<br>[...]<br>“Yes,” Verona said. “So my guess? Silas has this. And Faerie ''love'' the social manipulation and subtle crap. So how does that work with something like a Winter Faerie?”<br><br>“A creeping frost over connections?” Avery asked.<br><br>“What does frost do, though?” Verona asked.<br><br>“Chills? Makes things more rigid?” Avery suggested.<br><br>“Or it’s a prelude to freezing them,” Verona said. “Imagine. A big ritual, and it locks things down? Imagine that this kid is spending time around people, establishing a relationship as… I dunno. A friend, an enemy, a boyfriend, a student, and then freezing those relationships.”<br><br>“What’s the advantage in doing that to ''us?''” Lucy asked.<br><br>“I think there’s a ''huge'' advantage in knowing exactly where you stand with people,” Verona retorted. - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2020/11/24 Excerpt] from [[Cutting Class 6.9]]</ref>