somewhere only we know

[NORA SPARROW]

Nora Jane Sparrow

Nora is a twenty year old student at Meadow Heights Community College. Her major is undeclared and she’s enjoying that, as it gives her the ability to take whatever class sounds most interesting to her. Most are art and literature courses. She recently inherited a rather sizable house from her aunt and lives there on her own. She’s lonely, but she’s used to that.

Nora has some issues. She has anxiety attacks. She’s quiet. She’s shy. She’s woefully naïve. But she also has strengths. She’s unfailingly kind and has an incredibly enduring spirit. There is a quiet passion inside her that she herself doesn’t know of.

I walked across an empty land
I knew the pathway like the back of my hand

Friends- Having never gone to public school as a child and with an overbearing legal guardian who disapproved of her niece having a social life, Nora has never had a friend in her life besides books, and a stray cat she found and secretly fed when she was seven. This isolation has left Nora was pitiful social skills and crippling shyness. Despite this, she does want to have friends, and if someone were to look past her anxieties and idiosyncrasies, they’d find a very bright and caring young woman.

I felt the earth beneath my feet
Sat by the river and it made me complete

Enemies- The good thing about being a shut in most of one’s life is that it’s rather hard to make enemies. While Nora doesn’t have any enemies, she can sometimes rub people the wrong way. It’s possible to mistake her shyness as rudeness and her naivety can be annoying.

Oh simple thing, where have you gone?
I'm getting old and I need something to rely on

Love- This is something Nora thinks— no, knows she’ll never have. After all, she’s a dumpy, homely girl. How could love her? No, Nora is sure she’ll be single all her life. She’s known that since she was a child. Aunt Charlotte always made that very clear.