Edith Fenlow

Before anyone ever whispered of strange lights or dream-haunted woods, Edith Fenlow had already written it down. The former librarian of Auden’s Ridge, Edith was never merely a caretaker of books—she was the gatekeeper of memory, of buried truths, and of the fragile veil that separates the known from the unknowable. Now older, frailer, and drifting in and out of lucidity, Edith is a ghost tethered to her own body—but her mind still holds maps the town has long tried to forget. And in quiet moments, when the wind is just right, she remembers everything. Though retired, Edith remains central to the mystery unfolding around Auden’s Ridge. Her fragmented memories may contain the location of the original Threshold Binding, a ritual site that sealed something beneath the town long ago. In her lucid moments, she murmurs about a breach—a thinning of the veil—and a “promise she once broke.” As Minseo’s research and Kyung’s presence stir echoes in the Ridge, Shakira realizes Edith may still hold the final piece needed to prevent the town from unraveling… or becoming something else entirely.