Norah Fitzgerald
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Norah Fitzgerald was the young daughter of Aoife Fitzgerald, a 21st century SIGNET agent, and her husband Harvey.
At some point, the severed head of a Hervoken wound up in 21st century York. Being heavily injured and stranded away from its kin, the Hervoken arranged to have itself mailed to the house of Harvey and Aoife Fitzgerald close to Halloween, coming across as an innocuous seasonal present. It then made psychic contact with Norah, who had been playing at being a witch and welcomed the gift. After it told her its species's name, she nicknamed it "Hervy". Over the following day, however, it began to feed off her life-force through the psychic pond in order to heal itself. Harvey noticed Norah's change in behaviour when he tried to put her to bed and she refused to part with the pumpkin, going as far as hitting her father; he reported as much to Aoife when she came home from work, and she realised there was something alien about the mysterious gourd.
She called in Charles and her fellow SIGNET agent Xana, who recognised the purple pumpkin as alien and realised what it was doing to Norah. Realising that it had been found out, Hervy rushed through sprouting a complete body, and attempted to explain its injury and loneliness to the humans. Charles was interested in helping it rejoin its people, but Aoife did not trust it, believing that it would not be satisfied until it had drained her daughter completely; sensing her hostility, the Hervoken attacked, and to Charles's regret, they had to fight back and ultimately kill Hervy using salt and a carving knife. Aoife resented Charles for his hesitation, warning him that she would resign if something like this happened again, but the sight of her carefree daughter on Halloween day proper led her to reconsider the harshness of her stance: if a child could let the past stay in the past, she decided, then so could she. (PROSE: Hervoken Halloween [+]Loading...["Hervoken Halloween (short story)"])
