Halle Haldor

Halle remembers well the day she woke up and decided she couldn’t live with herself anymore. She considered walking straight into the Temple of the Invisible, but then went to find Willow Averille (page 107) instead. Willow was shocked. Halle was the right hand of Eònan Donohuei, a master criminal who’d recently expanded from smuggling to slave trading. Halle’s primary role was as his protector and occasional assassin-at- arms, and now she offered her protection services to Willow and her organization. But Willow, fearing that Halle would be killed for desertion, escorted her under armed guard to the Temple of the Invisible. In the presence of many witnesses, curious to see who was going in, Halle entered the Temple and was not seen again— until the following morning. Emerging in her robe, face hidden by the shadow of the cowl, Halle walked the streets, keeping a respectable distance from her new employer, ever watchful. She repeats this each day, unaware that her former employer has retained Cyprian Ovicula (page 100) to investigate whether her entering the Temple was an act of conscience or a clever deception.