Binah Fae

## About

Binah Fae is a notably very smart, owl-like student. At the start of the series, she is a third year of Stratus House and Library Assistant at Rosewood Hall.

She lives in Covent Garden, England in a penthouse.

## Appearance

She is shown in the official artworks by @beverlylove on Instagram, posted on Connie Glynn's Instagram, as short, dark skinned, with dark curly hair.

## Personality

Binah is inquisitive and incredibly intelligent. She loves to read and solve mysteries.

Lottie notices, in *Undercover Princess*, that she "isn't really interested in romance and stuff like that".

She also is described as being an "outstanding athlete".

## Undercover Princess

In *Undercover Princess*, Binah is first introduced as Lottie is arriving to Rosewood Hall. She is seen carrying a large pile of books. Lottie describes her as "a pile of books with legs".

Binah begins rambling to Lottie as they both make there way to Rosewood, using large words such as "idiopathic" and "erythematotelangiectatic". She also gives Lottie her business card, making Lottie think that she will need one too.

Lottie says that she's been travelling far (from Cornwall to Oxfordshire). Binah gets excited and asks if Lottie's from another country or county (Lottie doesn't know which).

Binah also introduces Lottie to Anastacia, Lola, and Mickey as an "international".

Binah then acts like a tour guide and brings Lottie to the Ivy dorm.

Later that evening, Binah brings Lottie to the welcoming ceremony where Anastacia, Lola, and Mickey greet them and Binah introduces her to Raphael.

Binah explains more things to Lottie that evening including with what a Partizan is, which the others are shocked that Lottie doesn't know this.

Later on, Binah says that she has a gift for Ellie and Lottie but Ellie has to figure out a code she created first. She also gives Lottie 'Little Red Riding Hood' which makes Lottie remember the book she received on her first night at Rosewood with the ominous message: I know your secret.

Without meaning to, Binah becomes a brief suspect for giving this message to Lottie and therefore spreading the rumour that Lottie was the Maradovan Princess. However, Ellie denies that Binah could have been the one because she was so nice to her before.

In September, Binah tells Lottie and Ellie that a new male student is arriving and she wants the two of them to help her figure out as much as they can about this new mysterious student who turns out to be Jamie Volk, Ellie's Partizan.

In October, Binah is with Lottie and Ellie in the library and they all sit with the twins and Saskia and Anastacia.

When Ellie figures out the puzzle, it's a fox brooch which leads Ellie and Lottie to think of the nursery rhyme, The Vixen and the Delicate Mouse written by William Tufty, the founder of Rosewood. This leads them to search for a portrait of him and Lottie's idea that perhaps William was a woman and that leads them to suspect that Binah knows that Ellie is the true princess.

During the fencing try-out match, Binah gifts Lottie some sleepy-time tea, saying cryptically "sometimes the gifts people give us can help us in more ways than we expect."

On the day the exam results were given out, Binah gets top grades in everything and remarks "how very boring".

## Princess in Practice

In *Princess in Practice*, Binah has been promoted to Stratus head of year. She doesn't know anything about Jamie's new roommate which is peculiar to Lottie since Binah likes to know everything about everyone. She says, after Lottie mentions feeling sorry for the Tompkins twins, that they will be able to solve this although Lottie has no idea what. Jamie's new roommate is Percy Butter who is deaf.

After a student named Horace starts shrieking and almost passes out, Raphael asks Binah what happened to him. Binah has no idea and seems concerned.

Binah chose Royal History as her elective as well as Lottie. She tells Lottie that "it seemed like the most mysterious option". When Professor Devine mentions the Mayfutts Binah seems to be confused.

At the end of class, Professor Devine says that their homework is to draw their family trees. Binah says that she has about 40 cousins on her mother's side. Lottie slips up and says that she has no cousins and Binah catches this mistake. Lottie quickly corrects herself.

While Lottie is reading a book about Liliana Mayfutt in her Royal History class, Binah appears and interrupts her before volunteering to present her family tree first.

None of Binah's family come from nobility and her father is Korean, her mother Kenyan. Her mother descended from a long line of nurses while Binah's father is from a line of carpenters dating back to the 19th century. Lottie notices that the resemblance between Binah and her mom was "uncanny". Binah's parents met at a medical research faculty in London where they were a part of a team that revolutionized the treatment of autoimmune disorders. At the end of the class, Lottie asks for Binah's help.

Binah helps Lottie figure out what is in the chocolate bars which she suspects causes the students to start screaming and collapse. Binah figures out that the chocolate bar is covered in a coating and she makes Lottie remember that the smell of the stuff on the chocolate is the same that was on Jamie's breath from the illegal pool party from the last book.

It turns out that Binah, once she heard about Jamie falling into the pool, snuck into the nurses office to read the file on Jamie where his symptoms were written that matched Horace's. Binah knew the two occurrences were related but didn't know how until Lottie brought up the chocolate.

After Ellie pours a liquid over a chocolate bar, Binah recognizes the coating on the bar as the Hamelin Formula which was created by Hanz Thumann. It's known for its brainwashing techniques but was never finished. It is illegal and all the information about the formula was lost in World War II.

Binah then reveals that she has known everything all along—about Saskia and the Leviathan. Ellie and Lottie bring her to Jamie who ask her how she knew everything.

Binah explains that she uses the tunnels running through the school to figure everything out. She explains to Lottie, Ellie, and Jamie that she used to be best friends with Raphael, Anastacia, and Saskia The year before Lottie arrived, Saskia became distant and Leviathan took advantage of the tension between her and Anastacia and got Saskia to join them.

Binah then begins to craft a plan to figure out why Leviathan are using the Hamelin Formula and that the next time someone could fall victim to it could be at the Halloween party.

During the Halloween party Binah is dressed as a flower fairy and made Lottie and Ellie's costumes, a pumpkin and pirate respectively. After Lottie explains that she feels a disconnect between her biological family and Ellie's family, Binah suggests to perform a séance in her room.

During the séance, the spirit of Lili Mayfutt's appears and Ellie, Lottie, and Binah realize that Lili Mayfutt is William Tufty's real identity. Binah also tells them that she knows where Lili/William were hiding.

They get to Elwin (the statue of a bird, Stratus' symbol) and they manage to open the passage and find many paintings done by Lili/William of Herny Pitkin, Lottie's ancestor. They realize the two of them were in love.

Later on, Binah realizes that Leviathan are experimenting on the Rosewood students and using them as lab rats. However, none of them know how they're getting in.

Binah, Lottie, and Ellie then find Lola in the Rose Wood and realize that Leviathan are finding the rest of the research Hanz Thumann, the Tompkins' ancestor, hid.

When Binah, Ellie, and Lottie, begin following Percy Butter, it turns out everybody else was also sneaking out as well (the twins, Jamie, Raphael and Anastacia). They all bang into each other and decide to come clean (except for the part about Lottie being Ellie's Portman). Binah leads Raphael to say that Saskia would be incredibly helpful and that someone should go talk to her, that someone being Anastacia.

Binah helps all of them plan to find the Hamelin formula hidden inTompkins Manor during the Spearion, a fencing tournament.

On a field trip to Hampton Court for Binah's Royal History class, they bump into Ollie Moreno who tells Lottie that a couple of people from Lottie's town are at the Hampton Court and will recognize Lottie. Binah helps Lottie create a disguise and Ollie seems to have a crush on Binah but Ollie tells him that "she's isn't really interested in romance and stuff like that".

## The Lost Princess

When Ellie, Lottie arrive at Rosewood to pick up their exam results, their plan is to stay at Binah's for a while so Ellie can get out of the palace.

When Lottie discovers she failed the year, Binah and Percy are signing to each other, expressing to each other that it was fishy. Binah explains that there was a break in at the exam board headquarters and all the cameras were tampered with.

Lottie FaceTimes Binah while she's in Takeshin and Binah's at home saying that she saw Liliana's crest engraved in a tree over in Japan. Lottie wants Binah to get Liliana's diary which is at Rosewood in the secret room.

Binah texts Ollie Moreno for help to break into Rosewood and she also gets Raphael and Percy to join their team.

Late at night Binah leads the three of them into Rosewood using a passageway under the bridge which leads them into Rosewood. When she gets Liliana's book, Binah exclaims that "for the first time in my life I have absolutely no idea what any of this means."

She sends the diary to Lottie in yellow wrapping paper and bookmarked the page when Liliana mentions Kou and Japan.

When Lottie returns to consciousness, Binah is there in the nurses room along with everyone else. She asks that Lottie tell her all about the sword when she is feeling better.

## Trivia

* Her dorm room is 304B
* She is aromantic
* Binah got accepted into all three houses and she chose Stratus