Samantha

Samantha is one of the sixteen humans in stasis found inside The Tranquil Lady during the events of Barbarian's Rescue. She is one of the main characters in Sam's Secret. She is mated to Sessah.

## Description

She is the prettiest of the sixteen stasis girls. She’s roughly around her mid twenties and is about five years older than Sessah. She’s has a lean, fit physique and is around the same size as Josie. She has light strawberry blonde hair.

## Personality

Before her book, Sam was very cautious person and was wary of opening up to people due to her abusive ex boyfriend; Brad. She never left things to chance by letting her guard down. It took her a while to trust others and was rather lonely.

After her book, while still cautious and slow to trust, she is more open and happy.

Overly Sam is competent, determined and self assured. Sam is also a very skilled hunter and is one of the most agile of the women.

## History

After she graduated from high school, Sam took some time off to figure out what she wanted to do. She got a job as a barista at a local coffee shop. While working there she met an MMA fighter named Brad, who became her boyfriend for two months until he hit her. Sam broke up with Brad, but this did not deter him. He continued to stalk and threaten her, even after she moved multiple times and took out a restraining order. The police, who were often his friends and fans, did nothing to stop it. One night, while hiding in her closet fearing that Brad would break in and kill her, she was abducted.

She was woken up by Liz and Harlow on Not-Hoth. She was the only one of the sixteen women rescued from the Tranquil Lady who was happy about being away from Earth, meaning Brad couldn’t get to her ever again.

After arriving on Not-hoth, Sam began her new life in Icehome Village and was starting to feel happy after so much misery. However, after Daisy arrived during Penny's Protector, Sam no longer felt safe.

### Sam’s Secret

Three years after the events of Steph's Outcast, Sam's mental health had only gotten worse. She had became focused to an unhealthy degree on self protection and making weapons. Daisy's arrival had made her fearful that Brad could somehow come to Not-Hoth as well. This refocus on the terror Brad caused her, also soured her view on resonance, out of fear of being tied to someone like Brad. She had also has become more isolated, which has only gotten worse as fewer and fewer single women remained. She finally decided she needed some time away and plans a solo trip to the Fruit Cave.

At the start of Sam's Secret, Sessah returns to Icehome after three years of living in Croatoan. She was horrified to discover while greeting Sessah, that she had begun to resonate to him. Realizing that he has yet to begin himself, she fled towards the Fruit Cave. It isn't long before Sessah catches up and begins to resonate back. She reluctantly allows him to follow her to the fruit cave.

When they arrive in the cave, Sam finally shares with Sessah her history with Brad. Three days later the two of them go hunting. While out they discover a stasis pod with a male praxiian inside. Not sure what to do they decide to come back the next day. That night Sam and Sessah grow closer.

They came back the next day, deciding to open the pod. The Praxiian male is named Kvasaht. Sam, not trusting Kvasaht, tells the new arrival that she and Sessah are the only people on the planet. When alone with Sessah she tells him that Kvasaht should not be allowed back with the others until they are sure he is trustworthy. Kvasaht becomes fixated on Sam. In response Sam and Sessah become more intimate make it clear to the Praxiian she is mated to Sessah.

Sam continued to be suspicious of Kavasht and lies to him. He in turn, clearly doesn't believe them. Kvasaht tried to get Sessah to share Sam, believing she is a human slave he stole. This angered Sessah, and Sam has to calm him down. Afterwards Sam came to the decision that she wanted to be with Sessah.

When Kavasht left that night, the two took the opportunity try and fulfill resonance. Sessah headed to get clean water from the waterfall and Sam noded off. When she woke up Sessah was gone and Kavasht was standing over her clearly planning to assault her. He demanded she wash herself, and she refused. He thrusted her into the water, nearly drowning her.

Sessah, who Kavasht had knocked out and tied up, awoke calling out for Sam. Kavasht, in response, attacked him with a rock. trying to kill him. Sam crashed into Kavasht, who got stabbed in the throat by his knife in the fall. Sam, opting not to save him, used the knife to ensured his dies. Sam is ultimately relieved she was the one who killed Kavasht not Sessah, though Sessah wished he had.

The two then buried the body and the pod under a rock avalanche and both agree to keep it a secret.

Ten days later, Sam and Sessah returned to Icehome beach and learn that Daisy has had a facial burn. Despite that the two celebrate with the village over their resonance as well as Lauren and K'thar’s second resonance.

Sometime later, Sessah and Sam visited Croatoan so that Sam can meet his family.

### Later history

After the event's of R'jaal's Resonance, the two moved to Croatoan.