There is something mysterious about Nurse Mercy Cheshire.
She is a healer, but she is not entirely what she seems.
Her face is rarely seen clearly beneath the shadow of her wide-brimmed hat and dark veil. What students remember most are her striking yellow eyes, with pupils as narrow as a cat’s.
And then there is her constant companion: a black cat with the same unsettling golden eyes.
Mercy possesses powerful healing magic, although she doesn’t know where her ability comes from. She can sense things about a person’s condition that others cannot, and her methods sometimes seem to involve something more than ordinary magical healing.
At Bonaventure’s, even the strangest injuries and ailments eventually find their way to Mercy Cheshire.
Some secrets heal.
A KINDER KIND OF CARE
Mercy believes healing isn’t always about fixing what is broken.
Sometimes it is about listening.
Sometimes it is about kindness.
And sometimes the thing that needs healing isn’t the body at all.
Her philosophy is summed up in a phrase that has become almost a whispered motto around the infirmary:
“Curiosity can be a form of medicine.”
THE MYSTERY
Mercy does not know the origin of her healing magic.
That mystery may be more important than she realizes.
There are questions surrounding her abilities that even Mercy cannot answer:
Where did her healing magic come from?
Why does she possess it?
And why does something about her magic feel strangely familiar?
For now, Mercy continues to heal the students of Bonaventure’s Academy while keeping her own mysteries close.
Because at Bonaventure’s…
Even shadows receive care.
MERCY CHESHIRE’S HEALING CHARM
Visitors to Mercy Cheshire’s Character File may receive a special Healing Charm bookmark.
The charm reads:
For wounds that bleed.
For hearts that ache.
For things that should have healed
but somehow didn’t.
Carry this charm as a reminder…
Kindness is a powerful kind of magic.
The bookmark is designed as both a front and back. Joining the two sides together can become part of the magic itself.
Healing leaves a light behind.