Enid Healy

**Enid Katarina Carew Healy** is a major character in both the Jonathan and Fran prequels and the Alice and Thomas prequels. She and her husband Alexander Healy left the Covenant to seek refuge in America, where they raised their son Jonathan and granddaughter Alice.

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## About

### Appearance

Short, blonde, and fair-complexioned like all modern Healy women.

### Abilities

Enid's sharpshooting ability is famed among the Covenant.

## Biography

Enid's parentage is somewhat muddled. According to the mice as a matter of faith, she is the daughter of Caroline and Peter Carew as she was adopted. According to Thomas and Alexander, she is the biological daughter of Annabelle MacLaine. All accounts agree that she was born a Carew.

Enid grew up in Wales and was the first generation of the family to be raised with the Aeslin mice. Enid was betrothed to Alexander Healy per the Covenant breeding system when Enid was still a teenager; Alexander's age at the time is unknown. They first met in the field, with Enid wiping the blood off her cheeks.[*citation needed*]

Enid and Alexander had two children together, Ada and Charles, before they became disillusioned with the teachings of the Covenant. They left their children in the Covenant's care and fled to America, where they settled in Buckley Township. They took a sect of Aeslin mice with them.

They had another son, Jonathan, who they raised fearing and hating the Covenant but without the organization's pathological hatred of cryptids.

As Jonathan builds a family of his own, all three generations remain in Alexander and Enid's farmhouse stronghold.

## In the Series

### Jonathan and Frances Shorts

Alexander and Enid are highly invested in Jonathan finding love and happiness. They fully embrace Fran as their daughter-in-law.

Enid helps Frances bury Mary after they locate her body.

### Alice and Thomas Shorts

Alexander and Enid are indulgent of their granddaughter, letting her sneak out of groundings and letting her explore the woods because they think Jonathan's rules are unreasonable. Enid acts as stay-at-home guardian for Alice, frequently baking throughout the day, although she does not try to keep Alice confined.

Enid is killed by a bidi-taurabo-haza that was released into the Buckley woods. Her family buries her and hunts down both the cryptid and the human that set it loose.

## Relationships

### Alexander Healy

They were originally matched in an arranged marriage through the Covenant breeding program, but developed an equal partnership of love and trust. On their honeymoon, Enid held him at gunpoint and told him if he chose the Covenant over her, she would choose the Aeslin colony over his ability to continue breathing. While Alexander does household chores such as the mending, Enid is the cook and baker of the house. They are an excellent fighting team, with Alexander covering close combat with his knives and Enid backing him up as a sniper.

## Trivia

* Enid habitually takes her knives and pistols with her for walks in the woods, but her shotgun is pulling out the big guns - literally.
* After moving to Buckley, Enid realized that the deed to the Red Angel might not cover all of Cynthia's mom's roots and helped her remedy it.

## Quotes

### General

* "We're all the children of our parents, both by blood and by they way they raised us." (The Lay of the Land)
* "The grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. Mind you, I always assumed that meant the other side of the fence was where all the bodies were buried, but that's neither here nor there." (Target Practice)

### Epigraphs

**Main Article: Epigraphs**

Enid's epigraphs involve many warnings about the Covenant as well as advice to keep her loved ones alive.

## References

1. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood
2. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood
3. ↑ Married in Green
4. ↑ That Ain't Witchcraft Ch. 24
5. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood Ch. 11
6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 The Mysteries of the Stolen God and Where His Waffles Went
7. ↑ That Ain't Witchcraft Ch. 24
8. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood Ch. 11
9. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood establishes that Enid had two sisters, both married before her.
10. ↑ Word of God states that both accounts are correct. The Covenant tracks by their official breeding program. The Aeslin have a different tracking system.
11. ↑ The Way Home
12. ↑ 12.0 12.1 Halfway Through the Wood Ch. 6
13. ↑ Halfway Through the Wood Ch. 12