{"id":529,"date":"2026-01-05T06:00:59","date_gmt":"2026-01-05T06:00:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/?page_id=529"},"modified":"2026-04-25T17:01:46","modified_gmt":"2026-04-25T16:01:46","slug":"celesteembrace","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/characters\/celesteembrace\/","title":{"rendered":"CelesteEmbrace"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>CelesteEmbrace<em>\u00a0 &#8211; Mise en abyme<\/em>\u00a0 &#8211; a story within a story<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>CelesteEmbrace is a mythical character who writes the horoscopes in <em>The Lancastrian<\/em>. She is a collaboration devised by Miss Gibson, ClaireVoyant, The Colonel and others. Miss Gibson has imaginative ideas. Claire writes some of the material. The Colonel provides oversight.<\/p>\n<p>KristalClear is intrigued. NutJob, and his dad, less so!<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDid you find out who CelesteEmbrace is? I\u2019d love to know!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCelesteEmbrace? What a clever name,\u201d says Mr Wood, \u201cit can\u2019t be her real name though, can it?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cShe\u2019s a brilliant writer whoever she is. Dash, er, Dave, promised me that he\u2019d do some detective work and find out who it is.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Miss Gibson invented the myth. The original pencil sketch was drawn by six year old Lily Jane Hunt, the day after her disappearance. The constable asked why there was no nose, nor mouth, nor eyes. Lily Jane explained that her face was pure light, and it had felt like warm sunshine.<\/p>\n<p>It appears that Lily Jane Hunt drew the picture from memory, and it resembles the portrait of LadyAmanda which hangs in the foyer of the Town Hall, next to the one of BrigadierHetherington. Two of the six <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/penrith-nobles\/\">Penrith Nobles<\/a>, the founders of Wolfland.<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" width=\"600\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td valign=\"top\" width=\"300\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-530 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000_199199_20251211_0712_ladyamanda010-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"an oil painting of an attractive noble lady with lovely long brown hair. She is aged about 30 and is wearing a low cut sumptuous ball gown in black and silver. She has a warm, sensual smile. Her right arm is resting on her hip. The picture is in an ornate gold frame\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000_199199_20251211_0712_ladyamanda010-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000_199199_20251211_0712_ladyamanda010-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000_199199_20251211_0712_ladyamanda010-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000_199199_20251211_0712_ladyamanda010.jpg 942w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<td width=\"300\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"wp-image-525 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000-199199-20260115-2152-celeste-embrace010-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"a pencil sketch in greyscale of a pretty lady with long dark hair and an ethereal, mystical face. The eyes appear to shine light, the nose and mouth are indistinct, she wears a shimmering, off the shoulder, ball gown. The background is a soft night sky with abundant starlight\" width=\"300\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000-199199-20260115-2152-celeste-embrace010-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000-199199-20260115-2152-celeste-embrace010-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000-199199-20260115-2152-celeste-embrace010-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/1910713000-199199-20260115-2152-celeste-embrace010.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 85vw, 300px\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"300\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/characters\/lady-amanda-farsight\/\">LadyAmanda<\/a><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"300\">CelesteEmbrace<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"300\"><\/td>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\" width=\"300\">A reconstruction of the sketch by six year old Lily Jane Hunt, as reimagined by eight year old <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/characters\/hayley\/\">Hayley<\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>CelesteEmbrace is featured in Book 1 SlenderWolf Conflicts and Alliances<\/p>\n<p>The back story comes in Book 2 SlenderWolf In With the In Crowd<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CelesteEmbrace\u00a0 &#8211; Mise en abyme\u00a0 &#8211; a story within a story CelesteEmbrace is a mythical character who writes the horoscopes in The Lancastrian. She is a collaboration devised by Miss Gibson, ClaireVoyant, The Colonel and others. Miss Gibson has imaginative ideas. Claire writes some of the material. The Colonel provides oversight. KristalClear is intrigued. NutJob, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/characters\/celesteembrace\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;CelesteEmbrace&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1477,"parent":2,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=529"}],"version-history":[{"count":22,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1340,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/529\/revisions\/1340"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1477"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.slenderwolf.com\/novels\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}