John's wight
The cofold attached to John — first revealed at the Preserve by repeatedly restacking a small pyramid of stones beside his pallet, with a precision and patience inconsistent with anything else in the room. John knocks them flat; they reassemble. He starts, reluctantly, to accept that something is there. STD:FWH:Ch 16
Known facts
- stacks-stones-into-impossible-pyramidsAt the Preserve, John's wight first reveals itself by arranging five thumb-sized stones beside his pallet into a tidy pyramid, restacking them after he knocks them flat — eventually into a near-impossible edge-balanced tower. The household's resident place-wight, by Leof's account, is friendly but small-scale; this one is not.STD:FWH:Ch 16
- sap-glued-the-stones-togetherOvernight the wight has glued John's pyramid of stones together with a thick amber sap, so that when he kicks the pile in the morning he stubs his toe — a small but firm escalation in its display.STD:FWH:Ch 17
- delivers-on-bowled-requestsFaced with the offerings bowls in front of the Preserve — milk, worn shoes, a pile of reeds for weaving — John's wight fulfils them at a scale far beyond the household's own friendly place-wight. The mats arrive in a stack of twenty, the butter as a mound the size of a small child; the shoes, however, have been unravelled into thread and laces, as if the wight is making a point about being asked.STD:FWH:Ch 18
- resists-runestone-pull-by-staying-bound-to-johnSefawynn confirms, from the courtyard of Wealdsig's manor, that the Wellbury runestone is calling on John's wight to either settle and protect the region or leave — and that the wight is resisting both, staying bound to him. Whatever has attached to him — nicor, draca, or some variety the skops haven't catalogued — it is, in her words, frighteningly strong.STD:FWH:Ch 20
- disassembles-locks-on-requestAsked, through a berry-on-a-white-cloth offering, to open the locked latrine door at Wealdsig's manor, John's wight quietly disassembles the lock into pieces on the floor — far faster and more cleanly than the thin knife and wire John was prepared to fall back on.STD:FWH:Ch 20
Events
- STD:FWH:Ch 21 Accepts a berry laid next to Quinn's phone and disassembles the device on the spot — screws, plastic shell, motherboard — separating it into its component parts in Quinn's hand, the same trick it pulled on the manor's back-door lock in the previous chapter.
Backreferences
- summarySTD:FWH:Ch 20