2.3 Carmen

Carmen makes her home deep in Sunset Valley.

With the facade of an ordinary human (attributing her unusual genetics to an extremely rare skin condition from Romania), she goes on to join the Science career and excels at it for many years, living comfortably among the humans. She never does find the answers to her fairy origins nor does she ever meet any fellow Supernaturals while living in the exclusively Muggle community; maybe she never expected to.

Regardless, after years and years of hard work, she finally retires from Science and devotes her time happily caring for plants. She enjoys relative seclusion and privacy.

However, later in her life she starts to crave companionship. She never does marry – she finds that plants are often greater company than human beings – but she decides to adopt a Muggle girl named Magdalene, who she raises as if she were her own flesh and blood.

With her bright sense of humour and a fascination with books, Magdalene can best be described as inspiring. Finally the silence of the forest is broken with the sound of a child’s laugh. Finally Carmen realizes what she was looking for in Sunset Valley: a place to call home.

And in the end…

All was well.

(Except for Carmen’s marshmellow catching on fire.)