4:30 PM.
Academy — East Garden, Stone Bench by the Fountain.
Seraphina Von Solaris was, in my original manuscript, a supporting character.
I want to be precise about this. She was not background. She had dialogue, she had scenes, she was named and given a family.
But she was supporting the specific narrative sense of existing in relation to another character's journey rather than possessing one of her own. I had given her the Solaris family name, the commercial education, the resource network.
And two scenes in which she delivered plot-relevant information efficiently and then departed. She had not, in the manuscript, been a person I had thought deeply about.
This was becoming a recurring theme in my life.
The person who sat down on the bench opposite the fountain was nothing like the supporting character I had written.
