Elle
Elle is a small girl of three years in Thelian Character Thelian Thelian is a Maan boy of about twelve, raised in the tower-city of Udhafa, who works a training shift at the Udhafa ISEMH node on the sixtieth floor.'s household, gravely ill with heart-fever that has held her low for weeks. Reddish-auburn curls, deep blue eyes, and a faded nightshirt with a Socly glider printed on the front are what she wears through the slow hours of her sickness. She is the person Thelian comes home to, and her few words are single syllables worn smooth by fever.
Key traits
- Maan People Maan The most numerous people of Elshore and the baseline cultural reference of the age., female, three years old; reddish-auburn curly hair, deep blue eyes, small and fever-pale.
- Gravely ill with heart-fever; the sickness has been long and is worsening despite Thelian's efforts.
- Lives in the sixtieth-floor canal-block apartment in Udhafa Place Udhafa The old capital of the Maan empire and one of the great inhabited ruins of the world, an ancient Iru-founded city in eastern Tarkdaara, carved into the bedrock below the Claw Pe..., in Thelian's care during his hours at home.
- Calls Thelian by the name Theli; has absolute, unmediated trust in him.
- Her trust weighs heavily on Thelian, and her illness is the central concern of the household.