Edith James

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Edith James, or the Girl by Candlelight, is a character appearing in Pale. She is Matthew's wife, and classified as a complex spirit.<ref name=":1" />

The Girl by Candlelight is a conglomeration of various spirits and echoes related to fire and loss,<ref name="gbc">"Matthew followed a trail of small fires and sightings to me. The ghost of a girl who suffocated on smoke in a house fire. The emotions and spirits shed in a roadside, candlelit vigil for a teenage girl who died in a car accident. A child’s pyromania, manifested in anxiety and confusion, cast away as the child grew up. These things and other, smaller things found each other and were bound together.” - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.3</ref> bound together and currently residing in the body of Edith James, who suffered severe brain damage after a suicide attempt.<ref name="ej">“Seven years ago, a girl named Edith James tried and failed to end her life,” Edith said. “She suffered severe brain damage and necrosis of the intestinal lining. It wasn’t pretty, especially with the grief the family suffered in the wake of the attempt and the hospitalization. There was next to nothing of her left, so… I moved in. The two years I was learning to operate a brain and a body were excused as Edith James’ recovery. Her family was overjoyed, and that fragment of her that remains inside this body is content that they aren’t grieving.” - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.3</ref>

Appearance

Edith has bleached blonde and wears a toque.<ref name=":0">“Who can teach us the basics?” Lucy asked.  “Both for practice and how this world works?  Matthew?”
“Edith can,” Matthew said.  “And Charles?” Edith, with the toque, nodded.  She’d been so quiet, throughout. - excerpt from Lost For Words 1.2</ref><ref>“The people who will look into this will be in need of those clues, and we’ll be desperate and in need of them,” Matthew said.  “If my life partner is willing to oblige me, I’d like to offer you a deal.  Edith?”
The woman with bleached blond hair and a toque took a few steps forward.  “She’s in a lot of pain, Matthew.  You’re too much a part of this to get involved, and you’re fragile.” - Blood Run Cold 0.0 </ref><ref name=":2">“What a mess, what do we do?” the other woman asked.  Louise was pretty sure she’d seen her in town.  Short, wide hips, maybe thirty.  She had bleached blond hair underneath a toque, and the lights caught her eyes, making them seem too bright.  Her expression was very serious.  Worried. - Blood Run Cold 0.0</ref> She is roughly 30 years old, and short,<ref name=":2" /> with wide hips.<ref name=":4">There were others down the path too.  Faces that she did feel like she had seen around town.  A woman with wide hips and bleached-blond hair.  Maybe twenty-five to thirty five?  Verona wasn’t so good with that age range. - Lost for Words 1.1</ref><ref name=":2" />

She appears to be a normal human, but to the Sight her eyes glow like fire.<ref name=":1">Edith James / Girl by Candlelight
Type according to Matthew: Complex Spirit
Appearance: Human?  Bleached blond hair.
Appearance with Sight:  Eyes glow like fire
Awakening: Skull → Gave red gem, took ash → coin Quiet so far Married to Matthew (didn’t take his name?) Knows fundamentals.  Sorta human? - excerpt from Notes on Others </ref> Even to the unawakened, the light can seem to catch her eyes a little more than it should.<ref name=":2" />

Relationships

She is Matthew's wife.

Abilities and Art

She has some knowledge of basic Practitice,<ref name=":0" /><ref name=":1" /> to the point where she is arguably a Practitioner.<ref>There have been some arguable cases like Edith and Matthew here, but Charles was the sole practitioner of Kennet for a good decade. - excerpt from Lost for Words 1.1</ref>

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