September Morning Bell

September is the main protagonist of the Fairyland series. She is a girl from the human world, who ends up in Fairyland just after her twelfth birthday at the beginning of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship Of Her Own Making. She is 17 years old by the end of the final book of the series.

## September

### occupation

Green WindFormer Queen of Fairyland, as well as many other things.

### friends and family

Margaret (aunt), Susan Jane (mother), Owen (father), A-Through-L, Saturday, Blunderbuss, Hawthorn, Tamburlaine, Aubergine, The Green Wind (friends), Halloween (shadow).

## Description

September is described as having a mole on her left cheek and very large and ungainly feet. Her hair is dark and long enough to blow into her face.

The Green Wind describes her as being "an ill-tempered and irascible enough child". At the beginning of The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making, September is Somewhat Heartless and Somewhat Grown.

## Biography

### Early life

September was born on a Tuesday in May. She lived in her parent's house, in Omaha, Nebraska, with her parents and a small and amiable dog. Her mother taught her chess when she was young.

### First Visit to Fairyland

The events of September's first visit to Fairyland take place in The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own Making.

Just after her twelfth birthday, the Green Wind appears at September's kitchen window, riding on the Leopard of Little Breezes, while she is washing up, and offers to take her to Fairyland. She quickly accepts. September climbs out of the kitchen window to join the Green Wind, however, one of her shoes comes off as she does so, and is left on the kitchen floor. As they travel, the Green Wind explains the rules of Fairyland to September, and mentions the risk of punishment from the Marquess if you break any of the rules. One of the rules is that eating or drinking of Fairy foodstuffs results in a binding contract to return at least once a year. September does not wave goodbye to her mother or father as they fly over the top of them. The Green Wind tells September that the world is a puzzle, like the interlocking rings given to her by her Aunt Margaret, and that they are going to unlock it, and lock it again to get to Fairyland. September and the Green Wind arrive in Westerly. September's toes begin to turn purple because of the cold, given her missing shoe, so the Green Wind gives her his smoking jacket, which produces an orange, jeweled key brooch for her. The Green Wind tells her that the Red Wind would have likely stolen the shoe anyway.

September is taken to Fairyland by the Green Wind, going first through Longitude and Latitude, then through the Closet Between Worlds, a customs office where she met Betsy Basilstalk. She was then deposited in the Perverse and Perilous Sea, where she was washed ashore on a gold beach and wandered off, meeting Hello, Goodbye, and Manythanks.

September met A-Through-L, who befriended and accompanied her on her journeys. They arrived at the House Without Warning

She later deposed the Marquess from her throne.

### Second Visit to Fairyland

After returning home to Omaha for a year, September returned to Fairyland only to find out that her shadow was causing problems, stealing the shadows of everyone in Fairyland, causing them to lose their magic and rely upon magic ration books created by King Crunchcrab.

She then went to Fairyland-Below to stop her shadow, Halloween, from her nefarious activities, thusly meeting the Sibyl in Asphodel, coming across A-Through-L's shadow, stopping at the Samovar where she met Saturday's shadow, who stole her first kiss.

Afterwards, she came upon the Goblin Market run by Glasswort Groof, where she bought the Watchful Dress in exchange for taking Aubergine, a Night-Dodo adopted by Groof, into her care.

## Relationships

### Family

Her mother is Susan Jane, and her father is Owen. She also has an aunt named Margaret.

### Friends

#### The Green Wind

The Green Wind is the person to take September to Fairyland on her first visit. He often refers to her using affectionate nicknames.

Her friends include A-Through-L, Saturday, and many more.

### Romance

She has a relationship with Saturday, a Marid who is otherwise known as the Blue Wind.

## Gallery

September journeying to Fairyland on Imogen the Leopard of Little BreezesSeptember at The House Without WarningSeptember turning into a tree in the Worsted WoodSeptember and the SibylSeptember as a WyvernSeptember, the Watchful Dress and Shadow SaturdaySeptember turned into a FairySeptember and HalloweenSeptember and AroostookSeptember and the Blue WindSeptember and Spoke, the Taxicrab