Juniper

## Biography

Juniper appears in Hurricane, she is age 17 and was born and raised at the Sea Farm. She was seriously injured and had to come to the hive to finish her recovery.

### Personality

Having been born at the Sea Farm and lived her entire life so far out in the open and not in the controlled environment of the Hive, she is very different from Amber, but yet they become friends. Juniper is very opinionated and strong-willed, but also very competent.

### Early Years

Juniper had been an apprentice of the sea and her dream is to become a sea captain like her parents, which is only possible through lottery and being imprinted.

But then a series of malicious traps was set to injure people and Juniper was one of the victims. Her left hand was mutilated and arm was shattered, she was taken to the hive for emergency medical treatment.

### Lottery

Juniper was planning on going for "imprint status", that is where the teens sign up to go to the hive and enter into lottery. Lucas and Amber are shocked to discover that the Sea Farm teens have lottery as an option, instead of a requirement the way it is in the hive.

Because Juniper only wanted to be a Sea Captain which required being imprinted, she was planning on going through Lottery, but when her apprenticeship was cancelled and she is banned from ever working on a fishing boat, she decides against the lottery and decides that she will leave the Sea Farm and go drifting to other sea farms.

## Summary

### Hurricane

Juniper will have to use an exoskeleton on her arm to replace the lost muscles and support the weaken bones, a physical handicap incompatible with her chosen profession of sea captain. While at the Hive, Amber had to read her mind to find out why Morton found Sea Farm minds so difficult to deal with. Since they knew that Juniper was innocent, Lucas thought it was safest to start with reading her mind. But when Amber went to read Juniper's mind, Juniper was suffering from claustrophobia and she figured out that at Nosy was reading her mind. Once she figured that out, she deliberately re-lived the events that caused her injury.

Lucas was impressed with Juniper and asked her to be their adviser on life at the Sea Farm while they were there.

Once Juniper returned to the Sea Farm she was sent a message that her apprenticeship was terminated, despite the fact she was the top apprentice for the past two years. The Captains Guild felt that she would be a liability on a ship so she was banned from working on any ship of the fleet, in any capacity.

In despair she decided that she would go as "driftwood" to some other hive's sea farm as soon as she was 18, but in the meantime she was going to help Lucas catch whoever caused her injury.

Once Lucas figured out what was going on at the Sea Farm and they were riding out a Hurricane at the Haven they set a trap and captured of the guilty party, Lucas suggested to Juniper that she go through a special lottery. At first she didn't want to, but Lucas proposed changing the rules for the Sea Farm 18 year olds, so that in the future they would have the option of rejecting the assessment results before being imprinted. Juniper's lottery results would be a test to see how well that worked out and if it did and the Admiral approved, then it would become the procedure for all future sea farm 18 year olds.

To her surprise and delight, Juniper's result was "Sea Farm Admiral", the highest position of all at the Sea Farm, which she gladly accepted. That imprint includes the truth about telepaths and nosies, so she also gained a better understanding of Amber's situation. They may remain friends in future.

## Trivia

* Sends Amber a video of fireworks over the Sea at New Years.

## See also

* Sea Farm (Hive England)
* Lottery (Hive England)

## References

### Citations

1. ↑ Edwards, Janet. Hurricane (Hive Mind Book 3) . Kindle Edition.

### Bibliography

* Edwards, Janet. *Hurricane (Hive Mind 3)* (2018). Wallam-Crane Press. Kindle Edition