Seanan McGuire (seanan_mcguire) wrote,
Seanan McGuire
seanan_mcguire
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From A to Z in the InCryptid Alphabet: E.

E is for ENID.

Enid Healy was a loyal member of the Covenant of St. George. She fought the things they told her to fight, she thought the things they told her to think, and when the time came, she married the man they told her to marry. But Enid had a secret. She was harboring a colony of cryptid mice, passed down to her from her grandmother, and viewed their protection as more important than the Covenant's edicts. When the time came, she revealed them to her husband, and together, they decided that their association with the Covenant was no longer in their best interests. They left for America...leaving their eldest son, who was loyal to the Covenant, behind. Not everything in life can go the way we plan.

Enid spent the rest of her life in Buckley Township, Michigan. She raised her younger son, Jonathan, and taught him everything she could to keep him alive. She saw the mice through several generations. She stood proud at her son's marriage to Frances Brown, late of Arizona, and she assisted in the birthing of both her grandchildren. She wept like any grandmother would when they buried her grandson, the first member of the Healy family to be lain to rest in Michigan's soil.

He wouldn't be the last.

While she lived, Enid was the best shot in Buckley. She tended her garden, tended her family, and saw her granddaughter grow into a woman. She died with regrets, because she was only human, but she died glad of the life she'd lived, and secure in the knowledge that she'd done the best she could. The mice remember her as the Patient Priestess, and like all Healy women, Enid rests easy in the immortality of the mice.
Tags: cheese and cake, discount armageddon, incryptid
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  • 46 comments

mrs_norris_mous

February 12 2012, 16:24:55 UTC 5 years ago

I am enjoying these thank you.

ps "protection as most important than the Covenant's edicts." is most suppose to be more ?

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:22:22 UTC 5 years ago

Yeah; I fixed it.

filkertom

February 12 2012, 16:34:53 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  February 12 2012, 18:47:20 UTC

Enid, we never really knew each other anyway....

(Lovely, lovely stuff, Seanan. [hugs])

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:22:30 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

lysystratae

February 12 2012, 16:53:50 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you, Enid, for your family and the mice

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:22:45 UTC 5 years ago

I'm sure she'd say you were very welcome.

markbernstein

February 12 2012, 16:58:02 UTC 5 years ago

Um, this may be something you've already addressed somewhere, but my mind just made the Buckley Township connection. Is Rose Marshall part of the inCryptid universe?

dornbeast

February 12 2012, 17:44:36 UTC 5 years ago Edited:  February 12 2012, 17:44:59 UTC

"this may be something you've already addressed somewhere,"

Yes, it is.

"Is Rose Marshall part of the inCryptid universe?"

Yes, she is.

The proof is in this story.

seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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kshandra

February 12 2012, 17:07:51 UTC 5 years ago

Thank you, Enid, for caring for my whiskered kin.

I hope that Discount Armageddon et sequelae do well enough that these are eventually published in deadtree format as well.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:23:22 UTC 5 years ago

The alphabet isn't designed for dead tree form; it's a countdown. I don't think there's any world where the series could do that well.

kshandra

5 years ago

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zero_pixel_coun

February 12 2012, 17:29:20 UTC 5 years ago

Oh wow! I had been sitting on my enthusiasm assuming our release date wouldn't be for a few months, but it looks like it's synchronous this time. *happy dance*

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:24:16 UTC 5 years ago

Where are you again? Because this oughtn't to be synchronous anywhere but Canada.

zero_pixel_coun

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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serge_lj

February 12 2012, 19:39:13 UTC 5 years ago

I for one want to hear more about the Mice.

archangelbeth

February 12 2012, 20:34:56 UTC 5 years ago

Wait till the Letter M, I suspect...

*adores the mice and totally believes they're more important than the Covenant*

catsittingstill

5 years ago

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netpositive

5 years ago

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seanan_mcguire

5 years ago

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herewiss13

February 12 2012, 20:52:23 UTC 5 years ago

I have been looking forward to those mice for _so_long_! This is going to be awesome

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:36:17 UTC 5 years ago

I hope so!

yellowblackhaze

February 12 2012, 21:22:12 UTC 5 years ago

All hail the mother of the colony! Cheese! and Cake!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:37:15 UTC 5 years ago

That would actually be Enid's grandmother, Caroline. :)

kellyjelly33

February 13 2012, 01:43:10 UTC 5 years ago

Looking forward to this so much! Can't pre order yet through Borderlands Books...I will once I can! I would order through a local bookstore but it's not coming out here in Australia (at least not that I can see anyways) so I will do as you ask and order through Borderlands Books. Local bookstores must be supported! Especially when they're awesome.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:37:25 UTC 5 years ago

Hooray!

fadedbluejeans

5 years ago

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kellyjelly33

5 years ago

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nightshade_03

February 13 2012, 03:04:40 UTC 5 years ago

Out of curiousity, is there a post on your worldbuilding process? All of your worlds are so fully realised and distinct, I feel like it must take years to get everything figured out and researched.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:37:55 UTC 5 years ago

Not precisely. It's not really something I can codify very well. It mostly involves the word "why?" over and over.

celticdragonfly

February 13 2012, 05:36:43 UTC 5 years ago

Aww! I love the mice SO VERY MUCH. And their priestesses. Oh, I hope there's lots about that in the books.

And I love this alphabet countdown to look forward to every day and to remind me the book is coming soon!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:38:04 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!

azurelunatic

February 13 2012, 06:22:04 UTC 5 years ago

Cheese! And! Cake!

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:38:13 UTC 5 years ago

Yes!

shantak

February 13 2012, 06:53:56 UTC 5 years ago

Does this mean that the mice have British accents? Either way, I do love the mice.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:38:41 UTC 5 years ago

Not anymore. It's been several generations for them.

ohari

February 13 2012, 16:05:27 UTC 5 years ago

I'm starting to get bouncy with the countdown-ness. Some people may note minor tremors in the logs of their home seismographs, you need not worry.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:38:51 UTC 5 years ago

Hee, yay.

drcpunk

February 13 2012, 17:24:19 UTC 5 years ago

S. J. Tucker's "Kingdom of the Mice" is now on repeating loop in my head. I doubt these are the same mice, but maybe they're kissing cousins. (checks calender, pouts, as it still isn't time for Discount Armageddon to be on the shelves)

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:39:10 UTC 5 years ago

No, not the same mice at all. For which we can all be thankful.

ladymondegreen

February 13 2012, 17:27:21 UTC 5 years ago

I was detailing to someone over breakfast this morning why it is that despite the fact that the books are not yet out, the mice already have a strong and rallying fan club.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:39:22 UTC 5 years ago

Heh.

ladydrakaina

5 years ago

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knittingwoman

February 13 2012, 17:35:08 UTC 5 years ago

tried to post a comment yesterday but LJ would not cooperate.
I am so hooked on this series and I haven't even read any of it yet.

seanan_mcguire

February 13 2012, 18:39:29 UTC 5 years ago

Yay!