![]() ![]() She knows nothing about her mother, other than what’s found in those pages. Other than that, Olivia tends to focus a lot of her attention on her mother’s journal-the one small, green felt-covered thing that connects her to some semblance of a family: a most important missing part. ![]() And she’s learning sign language, even though no one else in the school can understand it. She practices looking at and drawing the world around her. She stands strong against those who would hurt her. ![]() But those challenges have also, in their own odd way, made Olivia stronger and more observant. And those parts of her make her an object of scorn and bullying at the Merilance School for Independent Girls. Olivia Prior is an orphan as well as a mute. ![]() In fact, these gray tattered spirits are as furtive and soundless as Olivia often is. She sees them in their partially-here state as they gaze soundlessly at the living world around them. Olivia sees ghouls-the decayed spirits of the dead that lounge around with missing jaw bones and other bits. The mute girl can’t, for instance, say things that others can, but she certainly sees things that others can’t. Olivia Prior’s life is a strange collection of missing and mismatched parts. ![]()
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