HEARTHWANE · GLASSBLOWER
human, 19
Was taken on as Master Brigg's apprentice at thirteen and broke more glass in his first year than anyone…
THEIR STORY
Arlen Holloway was the best pair of hands at the Rimewick furnace before he was nineteen, and the worst at keeping his opinions to himself. At the midwinter fair an old pane fell and broke, and a splinter of it went into his eye. Since then everything he looks at seems already forgotten, and none of it seems worth keeping. That night he walked up the white road behind a sleigh, and he did not look back.
FROM
Rimewick, below the snow line of Kestrel Heights
HOW THEY LOOK
Tall and narrow, dark hair, quick burned fingers. Since the fair his lips are blue and his left eye holds a glint that does not move with the light.
IN THEIR OWN WORDS
“It is only glass. It was always going to break.”
“Hettie? I knew someone called that. I think.”
BEFORE THE TALE
6 years ago · the Rimewick glassworks
Was taken on as Master Brigg's apprentice at thirteen and broke more glass in his first year than anyone before him.
4 years ago · the Rimewick glassworks
Caught his sleeve in the furnace mouth and was pulled back by Hettie, who burned her thumb doing it.
this year · the white road
Walked up the white road the same night behind a sleigh nobody else saw, and climbed in when it stopped for him.