Sally Henderson

**Spoiler warning!**
Ahead are significant plot details from the InCryptid novel, Backpacking Through Bedlam (2023). Read at your own peril!

## Family

### Parents

* Korean birth parents (estranged/dead)
* American adoptive parents (estranged)
* Thomas Price (adoptive)

## InCryptid Series

### Notable Appearances

Spelunking Through Hell
Backpacking Through Bedlam

**Sally Henderson Price** is a character mentioned in That Ain't Witchcraft. She is James Smith's best friend. When they were teens, Sally made a deal with the crossroads to help James leave town. The crossroads took her hostage but did not let James go, as he was bound to the town through an earlier bargain his family made.

Sally's whereabouts are currently unknown, but Antimony Price believes she may be in the same dimension where the crossroads sent Thomas Price.

## About

### Appearance

Sally has black hair and tawny beige skin. She is Korean-American.

### Personality

Sally is fiercely loyal to her loved ones, and willing to sacrifice herself for their sakes. She is also an out and proud lesbian.

Her favorite weapons are polearms and spears.

## Biography

Sally is Korean-American, and was adopted by a non-Korean family who had little interest in connecting to her Korean heritage. She grew up in New Gravesend. As two gay kids in a small town, Sally and James stuck together for protection, and became best friends.

When she learned James was unable to leave town, she made a bargain with the crossroads, but it took her prisoner without giving him anything. She ended up in Lemure, a "bottle world" where the crossroads sent people it captured. She became Thomas's lieutenant, leader of his guards, and surrogate daughter.

## In the Series

### Spelunking Through Hell

Sally meets Alice and is initially suspicious, thinking she's an assassin sent to kill Thomas. Alice knocks her out and steals a polearm, running through the palace to find Thomas. Sally catches up with them to find them making out, and it takes her some time to warm up to Alice.

When Alice, Thomas, and Sally stop in Portland before their trip to settle all the bottle world refugees, Sally leaves a snarky message for James to let him know she's alive.

### Backpacking Through Bedlam

Sally travels with Alice and Thomas to settle the bottle world refugees. She and Alice have a minor rivalry for Thomas's affections, and Alice is jealous of their platonic camaraderie. The mice have claimed her for the pantheon as the Conscripted Priestess.

Upon finally returning to Earth, Alice gives her her own room in the Buckley home. Sally is overwhelmed but excited to return to normal activities like shopping at Walmart and having clean socks. She is not in a rush to reunite with anyone from her past and is fine going to New York with Alice and Thomas the day after they arrive in Buckley.

In Manhattan, Sally is kidnapped by a group of Yong while grabbing pizza with Alice. The Yong assumed that because she looked Korean, she was one of them. Alice rescues her.

They return to headquarters and learn that a group of young dragons has been kidnapped. Sally joins Alice, Thomas, and their allies on a recovery mission. Afterward, they go together to hunt down different team of Covenant operatives and Sally is seriously injured in the fight. She is rushed to St. Giles hospital where Dr. Morrow magically heals her.

## Relationships

### James Smith

Both James and Sally figured out they were gay, and stuck together for protection, as New Gravesend was too small for the school to have a GSA. They both enjoy blueberry Eggos.

### Thomas Price

Sally is Thomas's lieutenant and second-in-command in the dead world of Lemure. He regards her as a surrogate daughter, and the mice recognize her adoption into the family.

## Trivia

* Sally is a lesbian.
* She holds onto her polearm even after leaving Lemure and returning to Earth.

## Quotes

"For fuck's sake, Jimmy, you need to learn how to stand up for yourself. I won't always be here to do it for you." --Epigraph for The Mysteries of the Stolen God and Where His Waffles Went

## References

1. ↑ She says it's been seven years since the crossroads abducted her, when she was 17. Spelunking Through Hell takes place in 2021.
2. ↑ Backpacking Through Bedlam
3. ↑ Spelunking Through Hell Ch. 9
4. ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 Backpacking Through Bedlam
5. ↑ That Ain't Witchcraft
6. ↑ Spelunking Through Hell
7. ↑ Backpacking Through Bedlam