NORA SCRATCH

eleanor scratch was born in the woods. she wasn't meant to live. death came for her and her mother, agatha,  begged for more time. for the next six years, eleanor and her mother moved through the woods together from town to town. they went from coven to coven too. eleanor watched as her mother killed those covens, and when she was old enough nora helped her. she sang, or made a scene, whatever her mother asked of her. whenever she asked why, eleanor was told by her mother that they did it to survive. they lived like this for six years. one day, she developed a cough and when she went to bed, she died. she had run out of time. she walked to death, holding her hand.

she did not rest after passing though. death kept her, loved her. they spent a few years like that though it seemed like no time had passed. eleanor was eternally six. death got her time with her as well. but she had other duties, other souls to help to the other side. she didn't mean to leave eleanor in the in between. she played, she roamed, and once managed to slip past the veil that had held her in the in between for so long. 

her soul forced its way into the body of a six year old girl dying in the hospital outside of fall river. she had no family, she'd been in foster care when she was struck by a car walking home from school. she made a miraculous recovery, but her old life, her time in the veil all slipped away from her. she was a foster kid, insisting on calling herself eleanor, and they just let her and assumed it was head trauma. over time, eleanor became nora, and nora moved into a group home where she lived for 5 years until she was taken in by a foster family. her foster parents, adam and lana, took her in and cared for her until strange things started happening around her. when nora started puberty, her powers began to manifest themselves. when she couldn't control them, she scared her family. it was when her powers manifested that she started experiencing flashes of her past life, her life in the veil and everything before then. they were hazy and the only thing that was clear to her was a song about a witches road. her foster parents tried to cope with it, but in the end they sent her back to the group home. she lived with three more foster families, but she was always a problem. in the end, nora ended up aging out of the system. despite her issues, she managed to gradudate high school and keep her powers on the down low. some of her classmates thought she was a freak, but they had other reasons to think so. she was quiet, and often hummed a song no one seemed to recognize or place no matter how much she asked. when she was 15 she started looking into witchcraft. she learned tarot and astrology. she found her way to the only witch in town, and began working for her in fall river curio & craft. mostly though, nora learned from youtube and books in the shop. the witch who worked in the shop never showed powers like nora had and so she never showed her what she could do.

in another universe, a witch got her hands on the darkhold and tore the multiverse asunder looking for her children. when she was trying to call her children back from the dead, the scarlet witch managed to pull another witch's child into the sacred timeline. one minute she was dreaming, the next she was walking through a glowing door crossing over once again into another world. she stumbled into fall river, massachusetts, but it wasn't her fall river. it wasn't her house. she stole a car and started driving. she wasn't sure where she was going, but something was calling her there. she only felt like she'd found her way to the right place once she reached westview new jersey. she was too late though, the woman she was looking for was gone. the power that called her there was not her mother's but someone else's. the son of the same witch who had pulled her through time and space. as she stood on the edge of town, she thought she saw a familliar face in the storm clouds. death herself, but she didn't come hold nora's hand this time.