Editing Mrs. Schaff (section)

==Chronology==
===Before the Story===
Noticed the death of the [[Carmine Beast]].<ref name=":5"/>

[[Avery]] and [[Snowdrop]] ran into her at the library in passing.<ref name=":0">[Avery] had hesitated to step outside because of the woman stooped over at the doorway, which was stupid.  But the woman had ''something'' going on.  Avery saw a silhouette streaked with handprints, translucent and foggy where those handprints didn’t exist, connections spilling out from the cracks as film reels or belts with sections cut out to suggest scenes.  Footprints made her recent travels across the library obvious – from front door to table to bathroom to kids section to table.  Residual crimson touched some handprints and connections.<br><br>All normal.<br><br>But there were a lot of small pawprints with way more traces of crimson on them near her hands, chest, stomach, and lap.<br><br>An Other?  No.  Avery didn’t get that vibe.<br><br>Aware?  It didn’t seem anywhere near as extreme as Kevin, Ted, Rae, or Clementine had been. [...]<br>This wasn’t as animated, but there was ''something,'' still.<br>[...]<br>She smelled like the Wolf, one step removed.  An old person smell, a sweat smell, bad breath, an animal smell.  Cat, not wolf.<br>[...]<br>Verdict?” Avery asked.<br><br>“She’s nothing like what Toadswallow told us about, with the Aware.  Attractive thing for goblins.”<br><br>“Got it, I think,” Avery said.  “One of those slightly Aware people that mess up goblins and things?  Like the kid who wakes up every time a goblin tries to pull something?”<br><br>“Not dangerous to something like Cherrypop or the new goblin,” Snowdrop said.  “It’s the big ones who have to watch out.”<br><br>“Cats?” Avery asked.  “Like some Aware cat lady?”<br><br>“Only a few cat smells.  Really docile ones too.”<br><br>“Yeah, okay.  I’m picturing Cherrypop breaking into her house and coming face to face with fifty especially evil murder cats.”<br><br>“She could handle it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/03/06 Excerpt] from [[Shaking Hands 9.8]]</ref>
===Summer Squabbles===
[[Tatty Bo Jangles|Tatty]] and her gang raided her house in an attempt to get the collar of a cat that they believed had killed a goblin.<ref name=":3">“He’s not with us,” Tatty said.  “Gotta go.  We’re raiding this cat lady’s house, she’s got so many cats.  It’s awful!  But one of their cats, it’s a goblin killer.  You can see it in its eyes.  Too much green.  Three goblins, we think.”<br>[...]<br>“If we get the tag off the collar of the goblin killer cat, we can take it to the Warrens and we’ll be heroes!  So brave, they’ll say!”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2021/06/08 Excerpt] from [[Dash to Pieces 11.12]]</ref> While it was successful [[Peckersnot]] was nearly unmanned.

Noticed the Carmine Contest.<ref name=":5"/>
===Winter season===
Mrs. Schaff was out and about when the nightmare market got started,<ref>“No sign of anyone from St. Victor’s.  This has to be super obvious to them, right?  Just about everyone Aware has showed up.  Cat lady included.  Anyone with any kind of Sight has to be awake and wondering what’s going on.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/06/14 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.6]]</ref> though she doesn't retain much memory of it.

She accidentally wandered into [[Lost Kennet]], which served as an impetus for the local community to reach out to her.<ref name=":5">But now they had a first lost sheep.  Someone out of it enough that they’d entered Kennet found without bouncing off or anything too weird.<br>[...]<br>“She talked to me after that.  Lots of weirdness.  Lately, the cats will react, I’ll see someone walking down the street.  Someone I don’t think I’m meant to see.”<br><br>“Yep.  If they’re who I think they are, I wouldn’t go out of my way to talk to them.”<br><br>“Animals sense things.  A booming, eerie howl this spring, my cats watching out the window- I go to look, the moon’s bleeding.  ''Meanness'' in the air this summer.  A bleeding moon again this fall.  Now a waking daydream into a jumbled version of Kennet, and strangers I shouldn’t talk to?” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/07/18 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.15]]</ref>

[[Lucy]] contacted her to persuade her to sell cats and the items her cats found at the Kennet Market.<ref name=":4">“We’re running a side market, we’re not broadcasting it, but it’s odds and ends.”<br><br>“A flea market?”<br><br>“More accurate than some guesses you could make.  But what we’d want is maybe special cats who could use a home, potentially… if you’re open to that?”<br><br>“They find me more than I find them.  I won’t ever turn one away, but if one had a better home to go to, I’d welcome it.” - [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/07/18 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.15]]</ref> Lucy also offered to pay [[Chloe]] the ghoul to help Mrs. Schaff get her house clean.<ref>And honestly, I know someone who does housecleaning, she’s looking to earn.  If you helped us by working with us, we could subsidize her coming in.”- [https://palewebserial.wordpress.com/2022/07/18 Excerpt] from [[Crossed with Silver 19.15]]</ref> The deal seems to have been accepted.
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