Jone Wissel

**J****one Wissel** is an elderly doe living deep within the bowels of Halfwind Citadel. She is the creator of Jone's Tonic, which is made of True Blue and can heal any wound. She used it to prolong her life.

## Biography

### Early life

Lord Ramnor had said once that Jone Wissel had "come with [Halfwind Citadel]", indicating that she had lived there long before he arrived.

She was said to be an apothecary's assistant at one point of time, although when the apothecary died she failed to obtain the vacant position.

She often wandered through the deepest and most untrafficked tunnels of Halfwind Citadel, only emerging after weeks or even months of disappearing.

### *Ember Falls*

Jone Wissel suddenly appears again after some while of not being seen. Heather Longtreader meets her as she is assisting Emma with healing the sick and injured of Halfwind Citadel just after the Attack on Halfwind Citadel, in which Bleston and his Terralain forces rescued the Halfwind army from slaughter by the Wolf army.

Jone Wissel starts speaking to Heather about how she finally "found it", saying a lot more puzzling things, the meanings of which Heather could never make out. Heather, however, responds as well as she can to Jone, who meanwhile unwittingly and accidentally "pegs" a wounded soldier's foot as he passed by the conversing rabbits.

Jone continues her myriad of lunatical reveries, remarking quite suddenly as if she had somehow returned to sanity how Heather had, in contrast to most of the Halfwind residents, been very kind to her.

Suddenly, they are interrupted by Lieutenant Kout, who accuses Jone of stealing from Prester Kell's storage room — an accusation that Jone does not deny. On account of this, the Lietuenant carries Jone off to jail despite Heather's protests, as Bleston (who had become the "Winter King" for Halfwind Citadel, due to his heroic actions on the battlefield and Smalls and Lord Rake's respective absence and death) had created a Citadel policy that simply did not tolerate thieves.

As Jone had been carried off to prison, she had dropped her patchy purse, which she had always carried around. Heather takes it up, lovingly keeping it in memory of her.

She thought several times of asking Bleston to release her, although she never did, due to the preparations for Morbin's second attack on Cloud Mountain and her subsequent discovery of his betrayal.

### *Ember Rising*

After treating Master Mills, Heather looks at the tonic in her satchel. She remembers how Aunt Jone had said she had figured it out, while lamenting that Jone always said such things. Despite this, however, she poured some of the tonic into her mouth and some into Master Mills' wound. Heather later considers using Jone's tonic on the Tunneler but decides to use something she is more sure of.

### *Ember's End*

According to Wilfred Longtreader, his recovery after serious injuries by Lords of Prey was due to Jone Wissel.

While in the Tomb of Lander's Dragons, Heather recalls how she had seen Mills on Victory Day, and then how Jone had said she had done it at last. She began to wonder if Jone had been correct, and so takes out Jone's tonic and uses it on Smalls. Smalls and Heather later find themselves alive, and Heather, overjoyed, praises Jone and her tonic.

According to the apothecary Missy Dreft, who was so old she could not leave her bed, Jone had been oldest person Missy had ever met when Missy was a child. When Emma told Missy that Jone was still alive, Missy realized that Jone had been using True Blue, and it had given her the Leapers' long life. Emma, suddenly hopeful, asked when Jone would be arriving at the city. Wilfred soon arrived with the old doe, who greeted Emma and expressed desire to help out as a doctor. Emma inquired of True Blue, but Jone responded sadly that she had used the last of it on Wilfred, and there was no more left in all Natalia.

Heather remembers the first time she met Jone, at a lecture given by Doctor Zeiger. She had turned around and seen a very old doe, and the doe had asked what she was gawking at, had she not seen an old rabbit before? Heather blurted that she had never seen one as old as Jone, and then apologized, but Jone replied that this was truer than Heather imagined and wondered if Heather was a seer. Heather told the elderly rabbit that she was only training to become a healer, and Jone said that she thought that healing was not just about tonics but about getting rid of death. She then introduces herself to Heather, calling Heather a 'little white learner'. Heather in turn introduces herself, and Jone comments on the danger of her Longtreader name. Heather then asked if death came to them all, as she had thought, and Jone replied that Heather may never die, as Jone never had. Heather notes that, during this exchange, she had thought Aunt Jone was saying something clever, but was inclined to wonder otherwise.

After Heyward and Emerson's team found that True Blue could give eternal life, Jone joined them in the lab.

## Physical appearance

Jone is a bent old rabbit and has an ancient creaking voice. She leans on a cane and looks up with wild eyes and toothless gums, and when she speaks she is known to spray spit. She carries a small cinched purse, which was patchy and old with half stitched holes and prominent stains. Jone was an enigma; she would disappear into the bowels of Halfwind warren for months and then emerge out of nowhere as if she had never been absent.

## Personality and traits

Jone is thought to be crazy by many of the residents, as she often speaks in strange enigmas that she attempts to use to explain a situation. She is always looking for "something", and claiming she found it (though it is never revealed what exactly she is seeking, it is presumed to be True Blue).

## Trivia

* The name "Jone" is of Basque origin and is a feminine form of "John". It means "God is gracious."

## References

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