Elsie is a female peculiar appearing in The Conference of the Birds.
Biography[]
Elsie was born in Cincinnati but had been at the Locust Gap loop since she was four. She does not seem to consider her forty years there a long time.
The Conference of the Birds[]
Elsie comes to talk to Jacob Portman and his friends when they arrive at her loop. Despite their not being there to return her friend Ted's sparkstone, she suggests they visit him anyway, bringing them to where he is. She helps him explain his sparkstone's theft, stating that it happened five or six months before and that the man who took it wore dark glasses he never took off.
Description[]
Appearance[]
Elsie is a young girl appearing no more than 6 years old. She has brown hair in a short bob and wears simple clothes.
Personality[]
Elsie is extremely talkative and is famous for asking a lot of questions, dubbed the "interrogatrix" by Ted. Her spirits are near unsinkable, deflating once upon learning that Jacob and his friends hadn't come to her loop to return Ted's sparkstone. She also wants to leave the loop and see other places besides Locust Gap.