Countdown Cassandra

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Countdown Cassandra is an Urban Legend, a story given life.<ref name=":0" />

Relationships

She became friends with a girl named Trinity Conway, becoming attracted to her due to her being marked by Fate and Disaster, this resulted in her becoming Aware.<ref>And while she sat at the tire swing in the backyard of a vacant property, a girl with numbers counting down in her eyes sat down with her.  They’re friends.  Now Trin is Aware, with a Fate-and-Disaster centric Other as her friend, and she might evade the exaggerated consequences awaiting her. - Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>

Appearance

She appears as a young girl with red numbers from a digital alarm clock reflected in her eyes.<ref>a little girl with the red numbers of a digital clock reflected in her eyes peered out from one side - Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.z</ref>

Abilities

Her nature is heavily tied to Fate and Disaster, as such she is inevitable and can't be hurt or feel pain.<ref>The collision barely hurt.  It didn’t hurt her, at least.  She wasn’t the sort of force or entity that cared about injury.  She was tied into inevitable forces and into stories.  It didn’t serve the story to have any bullet or attack practice stop her and it didn’t serve Disaster or mother Fate, either. - Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.z</ref>

She's able to track, encourage and strangle connections.<ref name=":0">The Countdown Cassandra was among those who worked to strangle the connection.  She was an urban legend, a story passed around by way of word of mouth.  She could track that and encourage or strangle it. - Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.z</ref>

The Countdown Cassandra works by appearing before a group of people with a clock counting down to disaster in her eyes. She gives three warning and there is always one person that manages to escape.<ref>“There is always one who comes out unscathed, because they heard me, they listened, and they took action,” Countdown Cassandra whispered to the girl. - Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.z</ref> Then disaster strikes, sometimes killing dozens.<ref>As her urban legend went, she appeared to people.  Sometimes she was alone and lost.  Other times, she appeared as a specter, a person by the side of the road.  Always, the numbers in her eyes were noticed.  A countdown.

Always, there were warnings.  Usually three.  Tied to that countdown.

Often, because she chose her targets with care, people were tired, disheveled, and distracted.

One person would listen.  They would heed the warning, they would frequently try to warn others, or to figure out what the warning was about.

Such was the tale that Fate spun.

Disaster wrote the rest.

Lightning hit the house, very close to the television set.  A segment of wall came down, but did not break or do much damage.

Normally her efforts would have more of a lead-up.  The warnings would be more substantial and ominous.  The disaster could kill dozens. - Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.z</ref> Afterwards she ceases to be, remaining as a memory of the warnings she'd given.<ref>Lightbulbs shattered at the same time Countdown Cassandra faded from the foreground.  Message delivered, she ceased to be, remaining mostly as a haunting reminder of the warnings she’d given.- Excerpt from Left in the Dust 16.z</ref>

Chronology

She was at some point bound by Basil Winters and stored in his implement. After Bridge took control of Basil he and Crooked Rook freed her and with her help managed to capture many Musser allies.<ref name=":1">- Left in the Dust</ref>

Cassandra warned Sarah Driscoll to close her eyes and cover her ears before lightning struck the house, blew up the TV and turned off all the lights. America Tedd managed to bind her but she was freed shortly afterwards.<ref name=":1" />

She was bound by practioners loyal to Musser after Lis made a deal with them.<ref>And the practitioners found Countdown Cassandra.

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They named the place she’d originated, the event that had spurred her into first action, and then they recited those who’d met disaster because of her, in order.

It had the effect of making her stay put.

To get out, she’d need them to get something wrong, she’d need the clock to run down -twelve minutes now- or she’d need the goblins to bring the Dog Tags.

None of those three things happened.  While some recited names that had been in Basil’s notes, the others drew the circle of chalk around her, and invoked Solomon.

Binding her.  Words were said, and she was captured on blank pages, trapped between plates of metal, and the metal plates were bound together, pages pressed so tight together they were almost one mass.- Excerpt from Wild Abandon 18.y</ref>

Peace ends

Three months on it is unknown what her current status is.

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