Maura

Maura Am Vern is the protagonist of Crudrat. 
== Appearance ==
Maura is very skinny due to lack of food. She has blue hair, like all crudrats do from spending too much time in the tunnels. Her eyes are silver which gives it away that she is of the Am Vern family, even if she is a reject. 
== History ==
Maura is thirteen cycles (years) old and an orphan - a reject since her body rejected the citizen implant. She works as a crudrat on the Wheel, cleaning out crud from scyther machines for pay. She's been doing this job for five cycles without a single injury, but as she is getting older and heavier she is becoming more of a risk to the Foreman. Heavy crudrats dent the machine and tall ones get killed. 
The earliest she remembered was begging for food in the crossgenetor area. She started running the tunnels as soon as she could, but not scythers, she'd been too young for blades. She studied and practiced, even learning what she could about murmels so she could be the best crudrat if that was all she could be. Crudrat, Chapter 1 
== In the Books ==
=== Crudrat ===
Crudrat opens with Maura running through a scyther to clean out the crud. At the end of it, the foreman tells her that she's too old to be a crudrat and takes her license leaving her without a job or usefulness on the spaceport. Rees suggested she steal a space skiff and get off the Wheel, taking her to the military spoke. There they found an alien space ship that seems impenetrable. In their attempts, Maura is knocked loose from her perch and falls into the bay. She flees from hostile progenetors only to find herself track the alien itself. She falls into him and is given a small metal card. With Rees's knowledge of the Wheel, she finds out where the alien is being kept. The alien, Fuzzy, bargains safe passage to his planet for her help escaping. They come up with a plan and off Maura went to enact it with the help of Rees. Once they are out of the prison, Rees asks to join them and they make their way to Fuzzy's skiff (whale), but isn't able to make it in time. After a daring escape, they make it back to Kill'ki space. Bonded to Fuzzy, she is offered a chance to test into Kill'ki society, but fails her first test when attacked by Jakaa Nova. 
== Trivia ==
* Maura's number was 445.Crudrat, Chapter 1
== Quotes ==
* "Armigers, port authority, progenetors, sequensors, enhancers, all that rode Wheel center and ran at its heights, they'd be looking for any excuse to space her now. They'll be finding it, too. In space, non-citizens wasted air."Crudrat, Chapter 1
* "I always had an overblown sense of your skills. Ain't no one never ran a scyther the way you do. There's magic to it." (Rees to Maura). Crudrat, Chapter 2
== References ==
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