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Nick, mate,
With everyone in a strop over Poppy, we thought it might be best to handle this quietly. We were out on Sunday for Mothering Day and our Ellie got to talking a bit about her family. It's the first any of us remember her saying anything about her people and we thought - well, naturally, we want to see what we can do to find them.
I remember that Arthur used to be able to pull someone's work record to see where they'd been assigned before. We know Ellie was assigned to an old witch in Ollerton before she came to us but she doesn't know what camp she was from originally. She knows she didn't return to the same place again - that is, the Mansfield camp, where she was when we applied for her, isn't the same one she remembers from when she was a child. She was quite young, though, so I'm not sure we should rely on her memory of what it was like. Of course, one solid indicator is that she wasn't able to find her mother again when she came back. (And she did try, apparently. We rather got the impression it's one of the things that got her into a spot of trouble when she came back, asking too many questions, getting 'above herself,' that sort of nonsense.)
Our thinking is that if she was assigned in Ollerton, she can't have come from far away originally. Could you see what you could find? We asked if she could remember her parents' names. She said she barely remembers her father - the family might well have been separated before her magic manifested - but she thinks his name was Roger, and she remembers other women calling her mother 'Rosie'. Rose and Roger Summers? It's something to start, at any rate.
And be careful, of course.
With everyone in a strop over Poppy, we thought it might be best to handle this quietly. We were out on Sunday for Mothering Day and our Ellie got to talking a bit about her family. It's the first any of us remember her saying anything about her people and we thought - well, naturally, we want to see what we can do to find them.
I remember that Arthur used to be able to pull someone's work record to see where they'd been assigned before. We know Ellie was assigned to an old witch in Ollerton before she came to us but she doesn't know what camp she was from originally. She knows she didn't return to the same place again - that is, the Mansfield camp, where she was when we applied for her, isn't the same one she remembers from when she was a child. She was quite young, though, so I'm not sure we should rely on her memory of what it was like. Of course, one solid indicator is that she wasn't able to find her mother again when she came back. (And she did try, apparently. We rather got the impression it's one of the things that got her into a spot of trouble when she came back, asking too many questions, getting 'above herself,' that sort of nonsense.)
Our thinking is that if she was assigned in Ollerton, she can't have come from far away originally. Could you see what you could find? We asked if she could remember her parents' names. She said she barely remembers her father - the family might well have been separated before her magic manifested - but she thinks his name was Roger, and she remembers other women calling her mother 'Rosie'. Rose and Roger Summers? It's something to start, at any rate.
And be careful, of course.
