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Home is small fiefdom located in the bad part of San Francisco, run by Devin. It is a flophouse for down and out Changelings Many changelings flee the Summerlands during their difficult growing up years, and Home provided a judgement-free refuge for any that wanted it up until Devin's death and its subsequent destruction.

Description[]

The Queen left the Home halfway house alone, because she couldn’t move against Toby's home fiefdom without insulting her liege, Sylvester. That angered her. When Toby was missing, her obstacle was gone. Despite her hatred of changelings, Winterrose stopped the Queen, in Toby's name.  

"A lot of changelings have fled the Summerlands over the centuries, building an entire society on the border between Faerie and the mortal world. The purebloods don’t know what to do with their precious half-blood children when they turn into angry adults." The fae never did anything to stop what went on in the borderlands, like Home. Changelings have gotten destroyed by the border world—fae equivalents for mortal drugs are far worse and Faerie held a lot of ways for the innocent to get killed. [1]

Although Home was meant to have been a safe haven for changelings, Devin took advantage of and regularly abused the kids under his care in order to get what he wanted. He viewed drug use - aside from goblin-fruit - with indifference as long as they did their required jobs in the end to his standard. Most children - such as Stacy and Mitch - had to negotiate with him for their freedom, only Toby was the only kid that he refused to let go unless she had been publicly commended by the nobility, which she proved when she helped find the False Queen a new knowe.

Home - mostly because of Devin - was also the stopgap between goblin-fruit and the Kingdom of the Mists. After Devin's death, goblin-fruit returned to the Mists at the hands of his former children no less. After all of them die and the False Queen is deposed with Arden reclaiming her throne, goblin-fruit is banned - but Toby remarks that she needs to rebuild Home.

About[]

Owner / Operator[]

  • Devin —Fagin-like leader (deceased)

Front Room Duty[]

  • All the kids had "duties". Front room duty was the hardest—had to stay alert without seeming to pay attention, and no matter how long you had to sit there—you didn’t dare fall asleep.
  • There were always seven on front room duty

Physical Description[]

Home is located in an abandoned looking building, between an old motel and an all-night massage parlor.[2] Unlike most knowes, fae can enter Home freely, though it can be difficult to leave. To protect Home against human entry, Devin procured a Coblynau-made sign (HOME: WHERE YOU STOP) layered with a powerful misdirection charm, and hung it outside.[2]

Other Details[]

  • Toby took her picture with Mitch and Julie in it. She also took the shot of Dare and Manuel of the bulletin board in Devin's office. [3]
  • Kids don't wear glamour disguises at Home.[2]
  • Only Toby, Mitch, Stacy, Kerry, Julie and Tracy are the last known surviving children from Home. The newest incarnation of Devin's kids died during the goblin-fruit epidemic.
  • Toby has a reputation among former and current residents of Home as both Devin's favourite and the girl who got out.

Residents[]

Name Changeling type About
Devin Lamia mixed blood (suspected) Founder and leader (deceased)
Dare Lorimer Tylwyth Teg, Piskie Manuel's twin (deceased)
Manuel Lorimer Tylwyth Teg, Piskie Dare's twin (deceased)
?, girl Candela pale green eyes; juggled glowing orbs[2] (deceased)
?, boy ? hedgehog spikes instead of hair (deceased)
Toby Daye Dochas Sidhe former resident
Mitch Brown Nixie, Hob former resident
Stacy Brown former resident
Julie Cait Sidhe former resident
Kerry Hob former resident
Tracy Wilson Gwragen former resident
John Silene former resident
Little Mike Gremlin former resident

In the Series[]

Strangers in Court[]

When Toby finds out she is pregnant with Gillian Marks, she visits Home and asks Devin to be released from his service. He agrees only if she can get the purebloods to acknowledge her as their equal.

Rosemary and Rue[]

Toby goes Home for help. Devin lured her in, seeming to still care for her and promises to help.[4] Dare and Manuel Lorimer take her to Home after a Doppleganger attacks her while already seriously injured.[5] Devin tells her he called the Luidaeg to save her, she had too much blood loss to survive.[6] After she learns the truth, she returns to home again to confront Devin, who ends up dead as well as Dare.[7] Toby got Manuel packed up while the Night-haunts did their work. Toby took photos off the wall in Devin's office: her with Mitch Brown and Julie; plus a photo of Dare and Manny. Then Sylvester arrives and takes them away. They returned several times to go through papers and clean the place out. When done, they brought in Salamanders to burn it down.[3]

Ashes of Honor[]

The consequences of destroying Home affected the changelings severely. With Devin dead, goblin fruit immediately began to hit the streets of San Francisco in epidemic proportions, and nearly all of the changelings that Devin "protected" became both addicts and dealers, eventually dying in the process.

Night and Silence[]

Jocelyn Lewis holds a grudge on Toby for destroying Home before she could safely integrate into fae society, also remarking that her mother Tracy Wilson was one of Devin's kids.

Sleep No More[]

Toby and the Luidaeg go to a version of Home recreated in Titania's Faerie. They hide out there and catch their breaths while on the run from the Queen of the Mists, but the Queen's guards manage to find and capture them there. Luidaeg only stops them from burning the place down by saying that there is a child of Titania, a Firstborn, inside.

References[]

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