Hollow City

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A girl with an extra mouth in the back of her head; the youngest of Miss Peregrine’s peculiar children

ALMA LEFAY PEREGRINE

Ymbryne, shape-shifter, manipulator of time; headmistress of Cairnholm’s loop; arrested in bird form

ESMERELDA AVOCET

An ymbryne whose loop was raided by the corrupted; kidnapped by wights

FRANKLIN PORTMAN

Jacob’s father; bird hobbyist, wannabe writer

MARYANN PORTMAN

Jacob’s mother; heiress to Florida’s second-largest drugstore chain

RICKY PICKERING

Jacob’s only normal friend

DOCTOR GOLAN

(DECEASED)

A wight who posed as a psychiatrist to deceive Jacob and his family; later killed by Jacob

RALPH WALDO EMERSON

(DECEASED)

Essayist, lecturer, poet

We rowed out through the harbor, past bobbing boats weeping rust from their seams, past juries of silent seabirds roosting atop the barnacled remains of sunken docks, past fishermen who lowered their nets to stare frozenly as we slipped by, uncertain whether we were real or imagined; a procession of waterborne ghosts, or ghosts soon to be. We were ten children and one bird in three small and unsteady boats, rowing with quiet intensity straight out to sea, the only safe harbor for miles receding quickly behind us, craggy and magical in the blue-gold light of dawn. Our goal, the rutted coast of mainland Wales, was somewhere before us but only dimly visible, an inky smudge squatting along the far horizon.

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