Edith Bullard

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**Edith Bullard**, or Miss Bullard is the headmistress of Miss Bullard's School for Former Ladies. She manages enrollment and her student's education, while providing them invaluable treatments for their supernatural afflictions. However, it is revealed that Miss Bullard is the antagonist of the story, as she had caused her students' afflictions to exploit them for monetary gain.

## Background

According to Bullard, she grew up in a wealthy family until some undisclosed event caused her family and fortune to plummet. She was blamed and ostracized for this incident, and eventually married twice, with one husband allegedly dying from an illness, and the other husband dying from a carriage accident. It is possible that she killed both husbands.

## Story

Bullard began her institution several years prior to the arrival of the protagonist, Lillian Graham. In her initial meeting with Meredith Morticelli in the village, Bullard offers her work and boarding, and Meredith becomes one of her first and most loyal students. But unbeknownst to Meredith, Bullard had actually caused her death, and she discreetly assists the Necromancy Academy at her school to conduct experiments on her with their elixirs in exchange for money. More students eventually join Meredith, including Virginia Belvoir, Greta Faye, and Winnifred Lambton.

### Ending

Depending on the route, Bullard and the school's fate varies.

**In Meredith's route**, Bullard takes Lillian to the balcony and confesses that she afflicted each of her students for money. She then moves to throw Lillian off the balcony as Meredith interrupts. Before she can stop her, Bullard throws Lillian over and kills her. To save her, Meredith kills Bullard and casts a necromancy spell to transfer her life essence, and Lillian is successfully revived. This is the only route that Bullard dies in. This is also the only route that the school can remain open, albeit under Meredith's care as Miss Morticelli's School for Girls in Need in *Meredith Ending 1*.

In Winnie, Greta, and Virginia's route, the girls and Lillian discover Bullard's treachery in different ways:

* **In Winnie's route**, Winnie and Lillian find the blood vials that she is concealing from the former in her office, and accidentally discover their student records that detail the causes of their afflictions and reveals that Bullard was behind them. Bullard becomes aware that Winnie and Lillian uncovered the files after finding that the blood vials were refilled with black tea. She continues withholding blood from Winnie for several weeks, until she dismisses Meredith, Greta, and Virginia one day to confront Winnie and Lillian alone in the classroom. Cutting Lillian's arm with a knife, Bullard attempts to goad Winnie into biting and killing Lillian, but Winnie attacks her instead and causes Bullard to become unconscious. Injured and exhausted, Winnie and Lillian support each other as they head to the village authorities, who arrest Bullard, and the students are released from the school.
* **In Greta's route**, Bullard follows Lillian and Greta to her "secret" tree. She sneers at Lillian for being oblivious to Greta's true nature. Bullard holds a mirror to Greta (causing the mirror to shatter without showing her reflection) which transforms her back into a fairy. She then approaches Lillian with bristling hogweed to paralyze and kill her for learning too much about her; however, Greta manages to tie Bullard's shoes together, and Lillian flees to the village to notify the authorities. Bullard is arrested, and the students are released from the school.
* **In Virginia's route**, Lillian sneaks into Bullard's office to intercept letters being sent to Virginia from her aunt, out of her concern for Virginia's increasing distress. However, she finds a separate letter addressed to Bullard instead, revealing that her aunt had paid Bullard to inflict Virginia's lycanthropy and to thwart any opportunities for her improvement to keep her at the school indefinitely. Bullard confronts Lillian and traps her in the office as she prepares to paralyze her with bristling hogweed and kill her, but as Lillian screams for help, Virginia breaks down the office door in her wolf form and rescues Lillian after knocking Bullard unconscious. They report this to the village authorities, resulting in Bullard being arrested and the students being released.

## Physical Appearance

She has green eyes, light skin, and gray hair worn in a bun. She wears a plum dress with black details.

## Relationships

### Meredith

Bullard considers Meredith to be her favorite student. Nonetheless, she has no qualms about risking her well-being and life for the sake of money.

### Lillian

*“Lillian Graham. Afflicted with mare on August 5, 1XXX, upon import of afflicted Northern Saddleback to the Graham Estate stables. Sale of afflicted stallion occurred on 66 Woolfolk Lane, 9:18 PM. Cost of transaction: 800.*" - Lillian's student file

## Quotes

*"Return to your own world, changeling. Your kind do nothing but corrupt the order of our society.”* - Bullard to Greta

## Gallery

Bullard throwing Lillian off the balconyBullard threatening Lillian and VirginiaBullard attempting to provoke Winnie into biting Lillian