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When she was ten, Mary wrote a short story about a warrior selkie princess. It was a horrible piece of trash (in Mary’s later opinion), but at the time she was so extremely proud. She read a bit of her to her cousins, who promptly began to make fun of it. Her cousin, Finn, however, chased off the others and encouraged Mary to continue to develop her skill. 

When Mary was sixteen, she had a boyfriend named Aidan Tannis. He was her first serious boyfriend, and although she cared for him, in her heart of hearts she knew that she didn’t love him the way that he loved her. To be quite honest, Mary wasn’t sure how she felt. She’d always accepted Aidan as a norm of her life, an accessory that she needed in order to fit in at Hogwarts. Many people expected Mary and Aidan to stay together forever--

But those people didn’t know that Aidan had cheated. Mary had caught him screwing a seventh year Ravenclaw by the Hogwarts lake, and her temper immediately took over. She jinxed Aidan square in the face, and when the girl threatened to slap her, Mary turned her wand on her as well. When Aidan and the girl reported Mary, she’d been in huge trouble, and had been reprimanded by the headmaster and her head of house as well. Even Mary’s father had been disappointed. 

When she was very young, Mary thought she’d grow up to be an apprentice of the Irish goddess Flidais, Lady of the Hunt. She’d been fascinated with the story since her grandmother had told her, and she wanted to use the goddess’s hunting to find her mother.