List of BHI Students

A list of students who attended the Blue Heron Institute Summer of 2020 alongside the Kennet Trio.

Amine

Main article: Amine

Apprentice of Durocher. Part of Zed's social circle.

Brie Callie

Main Article: Brie Callie

Associate of Zed empowered by the Hungry Choir.

Chase

Member of the Belanger Circle, the one who brought Nicolette into the Circle as her sponsor. Slightly overweight, and with a swoop of black hair. A member of a prominent non-Belanger family.<ref>He swayed a bit, and his eyes were visibly red even by candlelight. Alcohol and drugs lowered defenses, which was part of why she couldn’t indulge. Chase hinted at his motives in how he looked at her, and in the faint frustration he evidenced. His hair was a bit messy, and his shirt was unbuttoned. He’d been a guy who had been good looking, and could be again, but for the time being, was about thirty pounds overweight, wearing pants that didn’t fit. He thought he was being subtle, unbuttoning his pants to alleviate the pressure on his waistline, and using his belt to keep his pants up, but the ‘v’ of the zipper pulling open at the top betrayed his ploy. His hair remained styled, an older-fashioned swoop of black hair at the brow, his chin shaven, his clothes business casual, even in ‘leisure’. “Sir,” she said, acknowledging him, as though he’d spoken. He continued to study her, as if he could decipher something about her that would answer his frustrations. He was her sponsor. The one who had brought her into the circle. Alexander, in turn, was the one who had brought Chase in; Chase had been brought in because he was very, very good at dealing with certain kinds of Other, owing to his family ties, and because of the politics of it. Making Chase an apprentice and teaching him all sorts of things about Seeing made for strong ties with Chase’s family. -Stolen Away 2.z </ref> Seventeen.<ref>He had expected something very different when he had found her. Leverage against Alexander, maybe. More power. A grateful girl a year younger than him. Instead, Chase had had to go to school, he’d left her

here to act as eyes, ears, and hands on things here, and Alexander had 

started to barter with her, making her more Alexander’s apprentice than Chase’s.-Stolen Away 2.z</ref>

Dom Driscoll

2020 freshman. Ten,<ref name=":3">Are the other newbies as young as her?” “Yeah, kinda? Dom and Talia are ten and eleven, I think.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4 </ref> a beginner City Mage and Historian.<ref>“You’ve been coming here a while?” Avery asked.
“Three years. Dom is from a family of historians. They study patterns in history, to see if any accidental rituals emerge.”
“Accidental rituals?” Verona asked.
“I don’t know how much to explain, because I don’t know how much you know, and I’m not the best teacher. Uh, when non-practitioners do stuff, they can still create rituals. We call them accidental or emergent rituals. If you find a big enough or ancient enough one, you can tweak it or harness it. City layouts forming diagrams that influence economy? Big money, potentially. Patterns in, I dunno, wars followed by baby booms? That could potentially be a whole generation that’s special. They came here to deal with Ray, the guy I’m apprenticing under, so I’ve got the scoop there.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4 </ref><ref name=":1" />

Eloise

Main article: Eloise

Ulysse's fiance. Part of Zed's social circle through Ulysse.

Jessica

Main Article: Jessica

Partly self-taught, not tied to any of the teachers. A generalist with some focus on the Ruins. Part of Zed's social circle.

Jorja

2020 freshman, ten. Straight black hair, pale, wears mismatched clothes.<ref name=":2" />

An already-powerful Caller who channels a powerful urban drug-spirit<ref name=":2" /><ref name=":1" /> named the Drugstore Cowgirl.<ref name=":4">“My brother calls Glass Prison, and rescued Helei, a naiad.  A more bubbly and pleasant companion to help keep his spirits up.  Jorja taps Drugstore Cowgirl, and she took a bogeyman.  Uhh… doing the opposite of Talos, kind of.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6</ref> She has a bogeyman familiar to help mellow out it's influence<ref name=":4" /> which looks like a large, blank-eyed man in a trenchcoat who seems to glide over the ground.<ref name=":2" /><ref>A ten year old girl ran over to hug a boy of about the same age.  Behind

her was a guy that was six feet tall, hunched over, with an expression 

like stone.  He wore a black trenchcoat that was very weirdly fit around

his body, buttoned up from ground to neck, the bottom of the coat 

grazing the ground and hiding his feet.  He also had baseball cap that seemed to small for him, set askew.  His eyes were entirely white, except for the narrow pupils, which didn’t rove or move to look around at anything.  He followed behind her, the movements of his legs not visible, his head not bobbing with any steps.  Like he was floating. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4</ref> Looking to learn primarily from Durocher.<ref name=":0" />

To Avery's Sight she is covered in black handprints, with one holding her eyelid down, with black veins radiating from them.<ref name=":2" /> In the Spirit World she appeared to have bright pastel pellets dusting her.<ref>The room’s appearance shifted, to become something very much like the

spirit world Lucy had visited together with Verona and Avery.  The 

floor was covered in an inch of water, littered with flower petals.  She

could see the nose of the ‘mask’ she wore in spirit, and her hair was 

far longer, pale pink tendrils blowing across her shoulder.

Other students changed as well.  Avery had the deer mask.  [...] Jorja had little pastel pellets littering her hair and shoulders, in stark contrast to how dark her clothes and hair were, and how grim her expression was. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref>

Milly Legendre

A knight of seals. She and her family go around sealing powerful evils, maintaining the existing seals and fighting Warrens incursions; unglamarous work she compares to "magic janitors".<ref>“Milly Legendre.” “Avery Kelly.”  Avery shook her hand. “Lucy.  I’d shake your hand but mine’s covered in conditioner.” “Cool last name,” Avery said. “Meh.  If you asked around you’d probably hear something like how my family’s a bunch of magic janitors.” “Janitors?  What do you do?” “I’m a knight of seals.  If something too big to kill gets defeated around here, they’ll call my family and we’ll put up a barrier around it.  Or on it, depending.  Which is a once every few years type thing.  The rest of the time, we travel around, checking the old barriers aren’t

growing legs or wearing out, and corking up any warren holes.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6

</ref> She hopes to find a more pleasant focus at the Institute, but worries she'll flunk and end up a lowly goblin exterminator. She's been helping her family seal the Warrens since she was 12, and has no highschool education.<ref>“I don’t want to take up the family practice,” Milly said.  “It’s so dull, and when it’s not dull it’s traumatizing.  I’m hoping to find something else I’m good at.”
“Sounds hard,” Avery said.
“If I’m not really good at it, then I’ll get either dragged back or kicked out, and I’m not sure which is worse.  If I got kicked out, no high school education or anything, then I’d probably end up a goblin exterminator.”
[...]
“Sounds like you know a lot about it,” Avery said, diplomatically.
“Have to.  My dad’s had me doing it for the last three years.  Ever since I was twelve.”
“What if the goblins don’t deserve it?” Lucy asked. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref>

Nicolette

Main article: Nicolette

A young member of the Belanger Circle. Friends with Zed.

Seth Belanger

An 18-year-old member of the Belanger Circle, attractive. Banned from smoking joints in Alexander's office due to harassing Nicolette.<ref>“This,” Alexander said, reaching down, plucking the joint from Seth’s fingers, “is making you stupid. No more, when you come to my study. I’ll have to reconsider what errands I send you on. Tanner? You’ll take over until I’ve worked out where Seth may go.” Tanner nodded once. “It’s best you retire to your room, Seth.” Even dressed nicely, Seth looked like the distillation of a sullen eighteen year old as he worked his way to his feet, the chair not moving for him and the desk right in front of him. He uttered a single, “Sir,” and then left the room. -Stolen Away 2.z </ref> Wavy hair.<ref>“We’ll take the library as a study space?  Beginner class, Ray will teach here.  Seniors, if you have any questions or requests, Mrs. Durocher will make herself available for the morning, and Seth will be making himself available to get anything you need.”

Seth was apparently one of Belanger’s apprentices, a surly looking teen with wild hair. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref>

Alexander's distant nephew.<ref>“He’s using you,” Seth hissed into her ear. [...] “I know. Now please let go of me. Your uncle Alexander is already upset with you for disrespecting him, attacking one of his apprentices.

I don’t think it’s a good idea to repeat the process.” - excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z</ref><ref>He was related to Alexander.  Alexander had the institute in part 

because he’d bartered with family, getting the power as a kind of loan to get it started, then bartering again to get the good words, references, and contacts to bring people in. If Alexander’s distant nephew got in any real trouble here, it disrupted that whole engine. - excerpt from Stolen Away 2.z </ref>

A senior at the school.<ref name=":5">“Where are the seniors going?” Avery asked.  Some of Alexander’s group, Lucy noted.“They come here to collaborate on private projects and take the occasional advanced project, and ask visiting teachers for input.  That’s three groups of five or six students, I think, then Seth, a few others.”

Zed included, it seemed.

Lucy wondered what those projects included. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref>

Talos

One of Jorja's older brothers, Caller.<ref name=":1">Tymon and Talos’s younger sister Jorja joins us, already an adept caller

of a greater Urban spirit.  She should be recognizable or even familiar
to those of you who attended guest lectures with their mother.  Dom, as
anyone familiar with the Driscoll family knows, is a beginner city mage
and historian, and we’re excited to see if he takes after his big 

sister and parents. I’m also very pleased that a long-time colleague of

mine finally has a child old enough to send to classes here.  Talia 

Graubard is a beginner Dollmaker. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref><ref name=":2">“Jorja’s the third sibling to come. Her older brothers are already here.”
Zed pointed them out. The girl was ten, with hair about as straight and black as hair got, to the point it looked like it was wet, with the way it lay against her scalp. She was pale, and her clothes slightly mismatched for age, size, and type. She was the one who had run over to

greet the boy, with the large, gliding Other following behind, always 

moving slowly and not catching up to her until she stood still for a little while, which was rare.
To Avery’s sight, there were black handprints all over her, with the finger of one handprint hooked into her eye and pulling her eyelid down. Black veins webbed out from the handprints.
“Callers. That’s caller with an a, not an o. Slang for them is Druid or Draoidhe, but I’m not sure how PC that is,” Zed confided. “Most druids tap into the big, old nature spirits. her family taps into

more urban things.  The black gutter, the glass prison, the chemical 

lightning. Each kid picks one of these big, unrestrained lord spirits in the same general category, and then sort of taps into it for big, unrestrained, nasty practice.”
“Spirits of drugs?” Avery asked.
“Yeah,” Zed said. “My gentle verdict? Avoid.”
- excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.4 </ref> He channels a drug lord named the Glass Prison, and has a bubbly naiad familiar named Helei that he rescued to balance out it's bad vibes.<ref name=":4" />

Tanner

One of the boys of the Belanger Circle. He came into power through finding an auspice as an innocent, a sign of things to come. From there, he eventually found practitioner families, and was snatched up by Alexander. He's intelligent and a quick learner. <ref>Tanner had come into the circle through talent. He’d found an auspice, an almost literal sign of things to come, writing on a wall that told of coming hardships, and through that entry point, had lost his innocence and found his way to contact with Others, then to the practitioner community. Alexander had taken him under his wing to avoid letting other Augurs have him. He picked things up fast and was good at politics. Alexander sent him on a lot of ‘errands’, networking and doing business with other families. Tanner had meant something very similar to what Seth had said, but he had the common sense that let him get away with it. -Stolen Away 2.z </ref>

Tymon

Oldest brother to Jorja's and Tymon (who he shares a room with.)<ref name=":6">The guy wasn’t bad looking.  Fourteen or so.  He was rumpled from sleep, with a crease at the side of his face, had a sleepy look that, if

she remembered last night right, was perpetual, and tended to the 

skinny side.  Nice face, and hair that probably looked nice while it was

tidy but was a black halo of bedhead right now.  He wore a long sleeved
shirt and plaid pyjama pants, with flip-flops.

Something about the fact that he was the first boy she’d seen who wasn’t like, ready for school, Booker aside, and that she wasn’t fully awake with her defenses up, and everything?  Her brain did a mental that’s a boy he’s a boy somersault.

She extended a hand, on impulse, and then kicked herself for doing it.

But he stepped forward, across the hall, and shook it, smiling, like it was normal.  “Tymon.  Sharing a room with my little bro.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref> Caller,<ref name=":1">Tymon and Talos’s younger sister Jorja joins us, already an adept caller

of a greater Urban spirit.  She should be recognizable or even familiar
to those of you who attended guest lectures with their mother.  Dom, as
anyone familiar with the Driscoll family knows, is a beginner city mage
and historian, and we’re excited to see if he takes after his big 

sister and parents. I’m also very pleased that a long-time colleague of

mine finally has a child old enough to send to classes here.  Talia 

Graubard is a beginner Dollmaker. - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.5</ref><ref name=":2" /> he channels the power of a drug lord named the Black Gutter. He has a familiar named Dreg, an Alchemist Vestige which takes the form of a rat or swarm of rats.<ref>“Someone’s paying attention.  Yeah.  With another one of the newbies, and their familiars.  Talos and I have ours.”

He put a hand over to the side, and what looked like six rodents all scampered up his arm, one or two ducking under the cuff of his long sleeve, seeming to disappear into his arm with the lump under the sleeve going away, before crawling out again at the collar and shoulder.  They merged together into a single, black mouse with patchy fur and pale yellow eyes, with one tattered ear.

“This is Dreg.”

Right.  They were the callers of these great spirits of drugs or whatever.

Maybe not boyfriend material.  They’d been told to be careful and steer clear.

“Is he the spirit you call?” Lucy asked.

Tymon laughed, suddenly enough it startled her.

“No,” Dreg rasped, speaking with an adult’s voice.  “A good familiar is a partner, something you can control, or something you’re willing to be controlled by.  Things as large and wild as Black Gutter do nothing except drown you out.”

“Dreg is a vestige.  Was Aware enough to dip into some Jekyll and Hyde type alchemy, eroded away a good chunk of his Self.  Only a fragment of the person was left, other stuff took up residence.” - excerpt from Leaving a Mark 4.6 </ref>

14, with black hair. Lucy finds him cute.<ref name=":6" />

Talia Graubard

2020 freshman, eleven,<ref name=":3" /> a beginner Dollmaker.<ref name=":1" />

Ulysse

Main article: Ulysse 

Apprentice of Durocher. Priest. Part of Zed's social circle.

Zed

Main article: Zed

Apprentice of Ray Sunshine. Friendly with the Kennet Trio.

A senior at the school.<ref name=":5" />

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