Kayla

"You look as if you were moulded by a different god." - Kayla when Olivia doesn't look like she's been gooning for 10 hours straight.

## Lore

Kayla Woods was the eldest sister before her death, being an intelligent and soft-spoken woman. She very vocally opposed her mother's whorish personality, and is the only one who could get her to listen occasionally. Elizabeth appointed her as "Grand Guard" after the Witches were separated from their parents, meaning she was tasked with sneaking into the City to buy supplies for the rest. The only other allowed to leave was Olivia, to gain money to buy the supplies in the first place. Unfortunately, Kayla was hunted down by anti-witch extremists who decapitated her and threw her remains over the Witchopolis fence. Her corpse had its head stitched back to its torso and was sealed inside a stone statue, as was requested in her will.

Kayla's soul drifted into the Mansus, where she walked its various locales and occasionally glimpsed down into the waking world, but her view of her friends was cloudy. Eventually, Lauren's relationship with The Meniscate lead the hour to offer Kayla a deal, she could reside in a hidden abbey beneath her statue, but if she ever left then her head would fall off her shoulders and she would be dead forever. Kayla accepted, and hid her presence from her sisters so they wouldn't have to feel sad knowing that Kayla couldn't leave to be with them. She has some degree of control over the location of the Abbey and statues of herself, but doesn't know the full extent herself.

## Appearance

Kayla is a woman with shaggy brown hair with various twigs in it. She has green eyes and wears a murky-green outfit. Her neck has a visible scar from her death.

## Story

Kayla is mentioned throughout the game's first two chapters. In chapter 1, Lauren is grieving over her death, and her sisters mention that Lauren has been doing this for many years now, unable to get over the past. In chapter 2, he memorial garden mysteriously appears in the Terminus Caverns, acting as a save point.

In chapter 3, Kayla is met in person under the memorial garden, where she will explain to Olivia that she's been observing her and her sisters for the past few years. Kayla will tell Olivia that she's been projecting her memorial garden in order to assist her, but she will no longer be able to do so. She also laments on how she cannot see her sisters, as leaving the abbey will cause the enchantment keeping her head on will fail.

Kayla is met again throughout chapter 4, first in the Scrapper, where she will hide behind a wooden structure so her sisters do not see, and the second time her sisters notice her presence. Katrina will berate Kayla out of the wazoo for not telling her and the others, while Katja will laugh at the situation.

## Personality

Kayla is reserved and hushed. She only sometimes frowns but has a vacant state mostly, closing her eyes often. She loves her sisters and her kind, and knows she should try to hide her presence to spare their feelings. When talking to Olivia, she clearly knows more than she is saying but withholds information because she knows Olivia is too dumb/geeked out to understand.