Brolly

"*Morrigan carefully unwrapped the paper to find a black oilskin umbrella with a silver filigree handle. The tip was a little bird, carved from opal. Morrigan ran her fingertips over the tiny iridescent wings, feeling utterly lost for words. She’d never had anything so lovely.*"
―Narration[src]
A **brolly** is another name for an umbrella. It may be more common in Nevermoor to use this term as they have an entire transportation system that uses umbrellas called the Brolly Rail.

A brolly is essential for the well-prepared Nevermoorian, both for inclement weather and catching the brolly rail. Morrigan cherishes her black oilskin umbrella with a silver filigree handle that Jupiter gave to her on her eleventh birthday.

## Appearances

### Nevermoor (novel)

* The ROCC Caseworker had walked from the train station to Crow Manor in a wretched drizzle. She did not have a brolly and refused to remedy her situation with tea and biscuits or even a visit to the bathroom to use a towel. This poorly presented, damp smelling, brolly-shunner was meek, unprepared, easily bullied, and bureaucratic.
* The black oilskin umbrella with a silver filigree handle was Morrigan's Morningtide present from Jupiter. It was the nicest present she had ever received and a symbol of her new family.
* The Morningtide tradition of the Hotel Deucalion involved jumping off the east side of the open air roof and using an umbrella, and some Hotel Deucalion magic to safely float down 13 stories. As they do this, the guests say "*Step Boldly*"
* The Brolly Rail is a dangerous, convenient public transport system that is more adventurous and gets to more places than than the Wunderground. Morrigan's first trip is with Jupiter, on her way to the WunSoc garden party. It is exhilarating, dangerous, hang-on-tight experience. It is also the best way to get to the Hotel Deucalion.
* The tip of Morrigan's brolly is a key to the Hall of Shadows, another adventure.
* Morrigan used her brolly when she travelled on the Gossamer Line. The brolly is left as an anchor on the Gossamer Platform to take her home.
* When The Hunt of Smoke and Shadow abducts her from the battle Street Wunderground she instintively holds onto her umbrella.

### Wundersmith (novel)

"*Morrigan Crow leapt from the Brolly Rail, teeth chattering, hands frozen around the end of her oilskin umbrella*"
―First sentence of Wundersmith (novel)[src]
* Morrigan considers her oilskin brolly her favorite possession (even more than her W pin)
* Drizzling rain in the Living Map causes people to get out their umbrellas and take cover.
* On of the Bonesmen had a rusted old umbrella frame instead of an arm.
* Jupiter waves his brolly as a sign of upcoming adventure, when he comes to take Morrigan out of WunSoc to show her the Jemmity Park and Cascade Towers.
* Jupiter, Jack, and Morrigan use their umbrellas to step into Cascade Towers without being soaked, swept away, or drowned as Professor Onstald’s book had said they would be.
* "*Jupiter was pacing the black-and-white chequered floor – coat on, boots laced, umbrella in hand, ready to bolt when the Stealth called on him*". Being prepared in Nevermoor means having your umbrella.

### Hollowpox (novel)

* Elder Quinn questions if anyone thought to bring a brolly to hook onto the loops in the roof of the moving room during the C&D introduction.
* Morrigan again uses her umbrella to travel on the Gossamer Line
* Morrigan holds onto her umbrella for support when she is summoning more Wunder than she ever has before
	+ This act might have left some magic on the umbrella - "*Wunder remembers*"
* The Deucalion makes a golden brolly rail for Morrigan to fly around Nevermoor and lure all the Hollowpox to Courage Square.

## Behind the Scenes

* Morrigan *possibly* leaves the oil-skin brolly at Courage Square after destroying the Hollowpox. It is not mentioned after she wakes up two days later and the only items she takes home from the hospital are Emmett , slippers, pyjamas and her cloak (she travels home via the Wunderground). After destroying the Hollopox in Courage Square, she was probably carried by Fenestra while unconscious to WunSoc hospital, presumably in Fenestra's mouth. So, unless the brolly was tucked away in her cloak (and removed before the cloak was folded over the chair), or Morrigan was holding it while barely conscious, the brolly was left at Courage Square. and never mentioned again (in Hollowpox (novel)).