Lillian Gray

Lillian Gray, also called Dr. Gray, is the mother of Clancy Gray and wife to President Gray. Alongside being the First Lady of the United States, she was also a scientist and close friends with John Alban, the founder of the Children's League before his death by his own men in Never Fade.

## Biography

President Gray had just been elected as President when IAAN claimed its first victim Michael Everhart. She, like everybody else, figured that the disease could be easily managed, but is horrified as the disease claims thousands of lives.

It is unknown how much she actually knew about the real reason's the rehabilitation camps were opened and what happened in them down the line, but she did allow her son to become the first prisoner not only Thurmond, but the camp system in general once it was revealed that he had become a psi, in a attempt to convince the population to hand in their psi children.

Lilian would start research into curing the psi's abilities, but she wouldn't have any luck for years. She hyper focused on it for years, and ignored the suffering of not only the psi in the camps, but her people in general. When Washington DC was bombed, she disappeared from public life and started hyper focusing on her research.

Eventually she would pull away from her husband and would move to Georgia, where she would live in a Children's League safe house that was close to their Georgia's base. John willingly provided the protection for her, since he was interested in finding a cure for the psi's abilities. He would limit the number of people who knew about Lilian and would hide her and her research under the name Project Snowfall.

Eventually she would discover a cure, and she would run a series of tests on an unnamed psi child. Supposedly the child's powers were removed, so she was hopeful that it could work in the future. Clancy figured it out and would target his mother. Clancy hated the fact his mother had found out about a cure, since he wanted the psi to keep their powers to help protect themselves in the future.

When she is finally discovered in Georgia by Charles (Chubs) Meriwether and Vida, who were working with what was left of the Children's League, her mind is a mess and she could no longer speak thanks to her son. She is taken to The Ranch and Ruby Daly is able to help her come back to herself. She is able to explain the real reason of the psi's abilities, Agent Ambrosia, as well as the cure to what remained of the League and Anabel Cruz.

Ruby allows Lilian to listen in while she interrogates her son, and when she discovers that her son had called his father, she shoots Clancy several times. Lilian helps Children's League finish raiding the camps, and starts performing the cure, sometimes on unwilling subjects, at the end of the book. Clancy is the second person she ever performs the cure and she mentions she does it so that they could be some sort of "normal" family. She would attend a press meeting that promised to finish reuniting the psi with their families, and promised to give the cure to willing people. At the meeting it is proposed that the psi who chose to keep their abilities would have to stick to communities designated for them, much to the dismay of the psi in the room.

Clancy recovers from his procedure, and eventually Lilian gets out of performing the cure. Ruby Daly would eventually take Clancy's memories and give the pair assumed names. She set up a safe house in South Carolina where both would live. Clancy Grey would get his abilities back some time after the procedure was done to him as well as his memories. Lilian isn't there when Roman Volkov, Priyanka Archarya, and Suzume (Zu) Kimura visit the safe house and interrogate Clancy about Ruby's disappearance.