- Capable of babbling at parents and other familiar figures
- Often seen speaking to a presence invisible
- Vocalizations come from someplace deeper and more primal than the throat
- Caul of silk appears around the face
- Soul impermanence
1-3 months
- Begins holding grudges and crafting crude effigies
- Sudden changes in breathing
- Minor shapeshifting
- Laughs at the tragically comic
- Skin very hot, too hot
4-6 months
- Hides in chimney for upwards of 2-3 weeks at a time
- Witch hands
- Discontented and wearisome; groans a heavy groan and sighs a heavy sign
- Shadow doubles may appear
- Time abyss
- Feathers in lungs
- Ceases to experience delight
- Begins propping self up on elbows and handling small knives
6 months-1 year
- All clocks stop when child enters a room
- Speaks backwards
- Moon allergy
- Heart often vanishes
- Hair takes on shape of Witch’s Ladder
- Can’t touch iron
- Everything hurts
- Demonstrates independence by starting quarrels with the Cunning Folk
- Appearance of Vengeance Limbs
1 year-18 months
- First appearance of blood teeth
- Imagination becomes real
- Eyes no longer close
- Magic transitions from white to “grey”
- Can no longer be bound by cords or knots
- Dwells in the dirt
- Raccoon hands
- Haunted by Memory Twin
- Can draw simple shapes, then jump through them into strange worlds beyond
- Gains ability to cross running water
18 months-3 years
- CLASSIFIED
[Image by Andy Paciorek; other work available here]
Mallory is an Editor of The Toast.
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