Compassion
The shortest and frailest of Beacon's Greater Good, with light brown eyes. The first to stand and walk unsteadily across the room to embrace Rebeke over her brother. Speaks gently in council, but votes with Contemplation to test the recovered disc. STD:TSM:Ch 8
Events
- STD:TSM:Ch 8 First to rise and embrace Rebeke over her brother; later weighs in to commend Zeal's team and to test the disc.
- STD:TSM:Ch 10 Still at the council table when Nomad returns and proposes their goals align.
- STD:TSM:Ch 11 Tells Nomad the legend of the Sunlit Ones, invokes Adonalsium's blessing on the venture, and assigns Rebeke as his escort as part of her punishment.
- STD:TSM:Ch 18 Present behind the overturned table with the other elders of the Greater Good as Nomad reaches their ship.
- STD:TSM:Ch 19 Confirms the strategic situation in a soft voice — the corridor is untenable, the mountains are ahead, the sunhearts will not last — then makes the appeal that owes them at least the attempt to live, for ancestors and children alike.
- STD:TSM:Ch 23 Seated for the engine test, she pronounces the failed prototype the death of Beacon — and then, when Nomad talks her down, mourns aloud the city of Elegy's vision being devoured by the sun.
- STD:TSM:Ch 43 Asks for Rebeke to be sent in her place into the Refuge so all three Greater Good are not risked together.
- STD:TSM:Epilogue First of the Greater Good to put together what Rebeke has become — *Sunlit Woman?* — and accept the corrected title.
Backreferences
- factSunlit Man
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 32
- factthe great maelstrom
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 39
- factLodestar
- summarySTD:TSM:Ch 43
- summarySTD:TSM:Epilogue