Lola Velasquez

Illustration by Chris Bodily

**Lola Velasquez** is a member of the Pacific Glade Police Department who worked alongside Sheriff Olivia Marconi, and later her replacement, Abigail Shannon.

## The Neverglades Series

### Nightmare Walking

* Velasquez is one of the officers who responds to the distress call from Pacific High School, along with Zachary Atwater and Ray Clarke. She is able to get the girls' track team to safety and give their coach medical attention after Marconi takes care of the Semblance minion terrorizing them.

### Fear No Evil

* Velasquez partners up with Atwater when the police launch an attack on the Semblance's world. She is able to fight off and kill several monsters to give Marconi, Ruth Hannigan, and the Inspector time to take down the Semblance once and for all.

### Green Light

* Lola is alarmed when another quake hits Pacific Glade, after which she spots a boy with a green flashlight (who looks just like her son Junior) running through the forest. She struggles to figure out what’s going on, even reconnecting with her ex-husband Diego to get some answers. She eventually follows the boy into the woods and comes across the unconscious bodies of the Ferryman, Olivia Marconi, and the Inspector.

### Red Eye

* Lola accompanies her comatose friends to St. Florence Hospital and drives off the Ender when it appears in the emergency room to feed on dying patients. She works with nurse Paul Ingram and detective Georgina Prewitt to bring at-risk patients to the North Wing and offer them protection from the Ender.

### Man of the Law

* Lola engages in a standoff alongside her fellow cops (and Ruth Hannigan) when FBI agent Norman Clancy comes to the hospital with the intent to kill the Inspector.

### On the Fringe of What We Know

* In order to save the Inspector and Marconi, Lola joins the rescue group to enter the multiverse and find their friends’ missing pieces. She and Sheriff Abigail Shannon end up in the Nightmare World and are taken to a CAPRA bunker, where they find an alternate version of Timothy Lancaster with the Inspector’s cigar. Lola and Abigail escape and break the Ferryman out of its prison, but Abigail is shot by Lancaster in the process. She is with Abigail when the Ferryman transports them all to the North Berwick pocket universe.

### Final Rest

* Lola helps Elisa Monteiro tend to Abigail’s wound in the ice cave. She wants to take the sheriff back to their world to receive proper medical care, but the Ferryman says that Abigail wouldn’t survive the trip. She is by Abigail’s side when the sheriff finally succumbs to her injuries. Together with a fragment of Olivia Marconi, she reenters the multiverse to bring their friend’s body back home.

### Journey's End

* Lola resumes her duties on the Pacific Glade police force and even says a few words at Abigail Shannon’s funeral. She and Ruth Hannigan confront Agent Clancy when he approaches the group at the Hanging Rock and tells them the FBI will be keeping a close eye on Pacific Glade in the future.

## Other Appearances

### Student Body

* Velasquez helps to comfort Laurie Miller after her husband is killed in a home invasion. She accompanies Laurie to her son Bradley's school when Laurie plans to confront his teacher, Mr. Holloway, for abusing him. However, Bradley reveals himself to be possessed by a monstrous creature, and Velasquez is forced to shoot and kill him to protect everyone else in the school.