Candace

## Family Members

**Husband:**

three unnamed Children

## Biography

Candace is Jarra's ProMum. She appears in the Earth Girl trilogy and the novella Earth and Fire.

### Personality and Characteristics

Candace is a compassionate but practical woman. She cares deeply for Jarra, for whom she is both an advocate and a mentor. She is generally private about her personal life and opinions. The rights of wards of Hospital Earth and those with Novak-Nadal Syndrome are very important to her, as she herself has Immune Syndrome and grew up as a ward of Hospital Earth.

### Family

Little is known about Candace's personal family. She has three norm children, the youngest of whom is a year older than Jarra.

## Summary

### Earth Girl Novella Series

I Earth and Fire Candace has to give approval for Jarra to take flying lessons. Jarra portals to an unknown destination only to discover that Candace is enjoying a bit of cold weather to get away from the heat of Europe's early summer. Candace doesn't think it's safe to fly around, way up in the sky but she also feels that seventeen-year-olds need to be given more responsibility to help them when they become an adult so gives her approval for the flying lessons.

Before Jarra gets her license she has to take theory tests toward becoming a pilot, Candace arranges for Jarra to take time off from school so she has the time for them.

In Earth and Air Jarra arranges for her weekly two hour call to Candace despite the difference in their time zones.

Earth and Water - To be published.

### Earth Girl Trilogy

In Earth Girl Candace is nagging Jarra to get her paperwork submitted to University Earth pre-history foundation course submitted. Jarra has been resisting because she has felt it was such a dutiful thing for her to do. She finally gets the wild idea to crash an exo foundation course given by one of the off-world courses. When Jarra tells Candace that she wants to take the class from Asgard at first Candace doesn't understand since Jarra can't go to Asgard, but when she finally understands that all foundation history classes are held on Earth she agrees to approve Jarra's application in the hopes it will help Jarra finally to come to terms with her condition.

Once Candace is on board with Jarra's scheme she is ready to fight for Jarra to get into the course of her choice. Jarra is only able to call Candace a couple of times because of lack of privacy and time zone differences, but when Jarra is injuried during the Solar 5 Rescue Candace visits her in the hospital.

In Earth Star when Jarra and Fian are called into military service as part of the Alien Contact Program Jarra calls Candace to make some excuses for missing her call but she can't tell her about the activation of the Alien contact program nor that Jarra was drafted into the military.

Jarra is finally able to meet her in their usual spot at Earth Europe Zoo, but while there she gets an emergency notification from the military that the base had gone to war status. Jarra makes an excuse and sprints away.

After Jarra and Fian were seriously injured in a magnetic field at Eden, Earth Africa dig site, Candace was in the hospital when Jarra woke up. It is clear that Candace had met Lecture Playdon already and that they had a chance to talk.

When Jarra and Fian are trying to activate the final step of the Alien Probe and there were problems with working out the last sequence, Keon Tanaka went through Candace, because of her ProMum authority, to contact Jarra and to give her the answers they were looking for.

In Earth Flight Jarra is distressed when Candace makes a point of ensuring that her other ProChildren don't learn that she is Jarra's ProMum.

But then Candace went on to say that she had been very worried when she say the picture of Jarra, after the skunk juice attacked. so she called Colonel Leveque and he reassured her that Jarra was getting medical treatment and the mutli-colors would go away within a few days. They then went on to having a nice chat, where Leveque asked all about Jarra as a child.

Candace was invited to Jarra's clan's ceremony and betrothal to Fian, where she sat with Fian's mother.

When Earth registry retaliated by disallowing all off-world citizens relationship contracts that had ever been registered on Earth because of the court order against Jarra and Fian's betrothal, Jarra called Candace to see if she could stop them. Candace told her that she couldn't and wouldn't anyway.

Candace was there when Jarra was de-tanked and took off in her *Earth Flight* to *Fortuna* and again at the end when Jarra accepted the torch of humanity when it was returned to Earth.

## References

1. ↑  Excerpt From: Janet Edwards. “Earth Girl.” Apple Books.
2. ↑ Excerpt From: Janet Edwards. “Earth Flight.” Apple Books.
3. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Girl (Earth Girl series Book 1) (p. 9). Pyr. Kindle Edition.
4. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (p. 56). Pyr. Kindle Edition.
5. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Earth Flight (Earth Girl) (pp. 236-237). Pyr. Kindle Edition.