Mrs. Schaff

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Mrs Schaff is an Aware living in Kennet with a lot of cats.

Personality

She is stern and distrustful.<ref name=":2" />

Relationships

Grandfather shovelled her driveway, clearing the snow off it for her.<ref>“I see your driveway could use a shoveling,” Grandfather said. - Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

She was aware that someone had been watching her from the trees.<ref>“Can you tell whoever or whatever it is that’s been in the trees and sneaking around the property to stop bothering my cats?”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

Appearance

She's an elderly women with white hair with a single streak of black in it and tied into a bun. She is pretty but doesn't wear makeup.<ref name=":2">Mrs. Schaff, now wearing a coat over her housecoat, and a bright yellow scarf, stepped outside. She was maybe sixty, hair tied back into a messy bun, white hair with a shock of black that hadn’t changed with age yet, running to the back. Pretty, but no makeup, with a look about her like she could be a schoolmarm in some movie, ready to smack kids knuckles with a ruler. A natural glare and distrustful look.- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

Abilities

She's an Aware that owns a large number of cats.<ref name=":0">“She’s nothing like what Toadswallow told us about, with the Aware. Attractive thing for goblins.”

“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?”

“Not dangerous to something like Cherrypop or the new goblin,” Snowdrop said. “It’s the big ones who have to watch out.”

“Cats?” Avery asked. “Like some Aware cat lady?”

“Only a few cat smells. Really docile ones too.”- Excerpt from Shaking Hands 9.8</ref> Her cats can help her sense if someone doesn't fit in and as an Aware she can notice things most innocents ignore.<ref>“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.”

“Yep. If they’re who I think they are, I wouldn’t go out of my way to talk to them.”

“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?” - Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref> Recently her powers have gotten stronger.<ref>“Things have changed. She’s gotten stronger. And if you give her this deal, she’ll be stronger still.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref> She uses to only have one or two cats with special powers, now it's five to twelve.<ref>“Yeah. How many special cats or cat-like Others are here? It hasn’t always been this way?”

“There’d be one or two, before. And a few cat that had special talents or skills. Like being very good at dealing with bad little goblins, or sensing and fending off ghosts. Now? Five to twelve.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

Her cats are dangerous to weaker Others such as small goblins.<ref name=":0" />

Others use her house as a training ground so that they can learn to act like cats.<ref>“This is a training ground. Not-cats like me and Blankshanks over there, sometimes we need a refresher on how a cat’s meant to act. It’s a resource. The right cats, the right things, useful.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

Sometimes her cats find items with a hint of magic about them.<ref>Blankshanks leaped onto the coffee table a few steps from Lucy, depositing a hair comb there. A moment later, the cat that had had the letter opener leaped onto the coffee table, putting down a mangled mousetrap.

“…those,” Lucy finished.

“Odds and ends? I don’t know where some of them come from.”

Lucy used her Sight. She could see the staining, spreading like watercolor where the items rested on the table.

“You could bring those. Random things cats like. If they have instincts that let them sense trouble… they might have instincts that let them find those things.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

List of known cats

Timberwolf - a wild and aggressive cat<ref>“Oh, that’s Timberwolf,” Mrs. Schaff said. “She’s protective. Wild soul.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>
Blankshanks - a talking cat that actually a fairy type creature<ref name=":1">And these two cats were Fairy-ish things.- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>
Spades - fae or fae adjacent creature<ref name=":1" /> that attempted to pick Lucy's pocket,<ref>She snatched her hand down, stopping it before it could finish picking her pocket and take her wallet.- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref> capable of talking
Castleberry - a violent cat with a hint of goblin to it<ref>“Castleberry. A goblin-ish thing. Looks like roadkill. Violent. She coddles it.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>
An unnamed undead cat - it's capable of turning other cats into undead like itself, it doesn't need to eat, drink or create waste. Spends all it's time laying in a sunbeam<ref>“There’s another upstairs. Died, went unclaimed, spirit found its way back to the body. Undead now. Could get messy in the wrong circumstance.”

“Messy how?”

“If it bit another cat, there’d be two undead cats. If it bit a human, it would be two undead cats and an undead human.”

“Ghoul? Zombie? That sounds like a problem.”

“One or the other or both. Only reason things haven’t gotten worse is it’s doing what it did while it was alive. Lies in a sunbeam all day. Only difference is it doesn’t eat, drink, make waste, doesn’t have to move. But it stinks and we have to work to keep others from trying to share the sunbeam. All it would take is a reflex bite.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

Chronology

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>“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.”

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“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!”- Excerpt from Dash to Pieces 11.12</ref>

She accidentally wondered into Kennet Found.<ref>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.- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

Lucy contacted her to persuade her to sell cats and the items her cats found to the Kennet Market.<ref>“We’re running a side market, we’re not broadcasting it, but it’s odds and ends.”

“A flea market?”

“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?”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref> She also offered to pay someone to help her clean up her house.<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.”- Excerpt from Crossed with Silver 19.15</ref>

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