Heath is an 11 year old girl. She's also a 'different' person, but unlike her paladin, Rubel, she believes strongly in following the traditional methods for living a life. She believes in going to school and in getting a job, and in all the regular ways people go about doing these things. Being 'different' in our society is tough; it can seem that the established systems are built only to frustrate and exploit you. While Rubel entirely rejects these systems, and lives in the forest, Heath accepts the strange energies inside herself which make her different, and tries to combine them with the standards and rules of rural and city life. Writing Heath is interesting to me, because it's a study in the sort of person I didn't become, but I think her method of living is a valid one, well worth exploring. (-Heath of course, never spends any time thinking of herself in such subjective terms. She's got more important stuff on her mind.)

Heath is a great kid. -A bit of a tough luck story, although you'd never know it. She's been moved around a lot and doesn't have a real mother or father anymore, but she's been fortunate enough to find herself among good and nurturing people for at least some stretches of time. And after living in a setting for long enough to feel comfortable, she becomes very confident and active in her environment. She's strong willed and highly motivated, and when Quinton showed up in her life, they bonded very quickly. She became his apprentice.

The Green Book introduced readers to her, and the Blue Book shows her journey from the home she'd forged for herself in Millbrook, to the city of Highborn where the battle for security and family begins again.