So I super love Kiersten White’s series, and today I have a super secret IPCA Dossier about Faeries, but just remember, what you read here has to stay between us.

IPCA Employee Handbook Section 3.1.1

Artist Rendering of Evelyn’s Description

Faeries
Level Six
Known Entity (Human appearance), Ancient Origin, Parallel Evolution, Physical World Manipulation, Predatory
Immortality: Confirmed
Breeding: Unconfirmed, theoretically possible, no study available

Appearance: With glamour, tall, slender, large-eyed, beautiful people. Without glamour, less human-looking, with exaggerated slenderness and eyes too big for a person. Skin, hair, and eye color varies widely. Particularly without glamour, physical beauty distracting enough to be dangerous. (See Appendices: Faeries, Many and Varied Dangers of, 38.567.)

Myths: Small size, wings, flight, benevolence, wish granting. Also under debate is whether faeries are to be classified as a type of elemental under “spirit.” No current conclusion on whether “spirit” can be classified at all, much less with the same amount of clarity as earth, air, water, and fire.

Facts: Able to manipulate time and space through using the Faerie Paths. Able to create doors to the Faerie Paths anywhere (with the exception of places where too much iron is present [see Appendices: Faeries, Protections Against, 39.982]). Capable of corporeal manipulation of certain elements, sometimes deemed “magic,” though the term is hotly contested. Faeries can also project a type of their glamour onto people, lulling them into stupefaction. Similar to but far more powerful than vampire’s powers of influence. Faeries are nominally divided into two factions, Seelie and Unseelie, but no physical distinctions have been found between the two, and they are considered irrelevant as far as impact on function within IPCA. Faeries can be controlled by learning and using their true names, which they guard fiercely. (Please see Appendices: Faeries, History of Use Within IPCA, 42.38.)

Dangers: Myriad. Any agent who is to be working with faeries must undergo the four-week safety course. Death, disappearance, loss of limb, loss of key body functions, loss of sanity, etc. are all risks when working with faeries.

Information contributed by Evelyn age 15 (please see Appendices Catalog, Section 7, for details on glamour-piercing abilities), transcribed from the original audio:

I don’t want to talk about faeries. Pretty, pretty, stupid faeries. You know what they look like under their glamours—how they’re so beautiful you can’t even think straight? Yeah, I get to see that all the time. Lucky me. They’re manipulative and slimy and I think we should get rid of the lot of them and invest in jets. Or jetpacks! We should totally do jetpacks. They’d be safer than working with faeries. What? No, I’m not biased. I don’t want to talk about Reth. Can we be done now?

So here’s a bit about Supernaturally:

Evie finally has the normal life she’s always longed for. But she’s shocked to discover that being ordinary can be . . . kind of boring. Just when Evie starts to long for her days at the International Paranormal Containment Agency, she’s given a chance to work for them again. Desperate for a break from all the normalcy, she agrees.


But as one disastrous mission leads to another, Evie starts to wonder if she made the right choice. And when Evie’s faerie ex-boyfriend Reth appears with devastating revelations about her past, she discovers that there’s a battle brewing between the faerie courts that could throw the whole supernatural world into chaos. The prize in question? Evie herself.


So much for normal.

Kiersten White is the NYT Bestselling author of Paranormalcy. She has one tall husband and two small children and lives near the ocean, where her life is perfectly normal. This abundance of normal led her to a fascination with all things paranormal, including but not limited to vampires, faeries, and pop culture. Visit her at http://kierstenwhite.com.

You can also meet Kiersten on tour, the information is here. Personally, I am SO jealous of anyone who gets to go as I cannot as I no longer am near Chicago.

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