Jen Ross

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Jen Ross is am augur and member of the Belanger family.

Personality

She's in charge of taking care of family business and sorting out marriages.<ref>“Many practitioner families have people who will look after certain roles.  Common to every family.  There is often a woman who is trusted and connected who keeps track of family business.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref> A job she's struggling at due to receiving insufficient information from the business side of the family.<ref name=":0" />

Relationships

She heavily dislikes both Alexander and Wye to such an extent that she refused to allow her daughter Gillian to attend the Blue Heron Institute.<ref>“Ah, yes.  I remember, when Alexander invited Gillian to come for a term at the Blue Heron, on his dime, and her mother refused, he said, hm, trying to remember the exact wording.  Her mother would block one hundred percent of Gillian’s opportunities and squander one hundred percent of her potential if it kept Alexander from getting a single percentage point of influence over her.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref> Wye for his part snapped at her for using the wrong bathroom. He's also thinking about having her removed from her position because she's out of touch and has enmity with the business side of the family.<ref name=":0">“When I have full power, I want to remove her.  She’s been in the position so long, she doesn’t know the people she needs to know, she’s holding to old ideas, she has grudges against the business part of the family.  Alexander before, now me.  Alexander said she’d leave Gillian with no opportunities at all, if it meant keeping her from Alexander, even by the smallest fraction.  It’s having ramifications.”

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“In her mind, she doesn’t know enough because she isn’t told enough.  You send reports, but include none of the nuance, and you don’t update her on the movements in family relations.  She has to infer who you’re doing business with, but you sometimes do business with Belanger enemies.  To her, she’s left behind, waiting for one page documents with perhaps a paragraph of relevant information, through which she must divine intent, relationships, and broader realities.”

“She is a diviner, technically.  Divination is but one subset of augury.”

“You know what I mean, Wye.  The business end of the family has become divorced from the back end.  She’s left behind with your grandparents, your great uncle, your geriatric second cousin.  They talk.  They conspire.  They stew in frustration and frustration breeds resentment, and resentment breeds hate.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

She became hostile to Nicolette after she left to set up her own business.<ref>“She’s a rival.  Competition,” Jen said, quiet.  “You could crush her.”

“Nicolette has a vicious streak you really don’t want to see turned against you, Jen.  Try to crush her and you might end up finding out.  She’s a resource, she’s still technically a Belanger, she may return to the fold.”

“Why would you want her to?  She took what we had to offer and left us when things got hard.”- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

Appearance

She has grey hair and unhappy looking features.<ref>The woman who stepped out was both very similar to Gillian and very different from Alexander, somehow.  She was in her forties, already graying, and unhappiness was set deep into steely features.  Alexander had always made it seem like there was a half-smile behind everything he said, because he enjoyed all of this.  Alexander’s cousin Jen didn’t look like there was even a fraction of a smile underlying things when she was actually smiling, which was almost never.  She had pulled on a red silk bathrobe that was expensive, meant to be comfortable and easy to wear, and didn’t look comfortable at all.- Excerpt from Gone and Done It 17.y</ref>

Chronology

She was present when Wye, Tanner, Nicolette and Gillian were visited by the Carmine Exile.

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