[b]Name:[/b] Riley Taylor

[b]Age:[/b] 8 years, 2 months

[b]Hometown:[/b] Scarborough, UK

[b]Description:[/b] 
Riley stands at about 4 feet 3 inches, and weighs about 57 pounds. Her hair is a very light flaxen, that she likes to play with and braid when she's thinking very hard. No matter how much her mother combs and cuts it, it never seems to get perfectly straight or even. Her eyes are a dark grey that her father is very proud of, claiming it comes from his genetic line. She can always be found wearing a dark green dress with camouflage patterns, which she likes to tell her parents helps her hide from the beasts and never lets them wash.

[b]Personality:[/b] 
Riley is, first and foremost, easily excitable. She is easily impressed, but is not picky about what she is impressed by, so a collection of rocks catches her attention just as much as a beetle or grass clippings. Her love for exploration is a very large motivator in her life, overriding that of mannerly conduct, meaning she often abandons people mid-conversation or even mid-sentence to chase after a butterfly or raccoon, something that annoys her parents to no end. She also loves reading, especially anything to do with Celtic or Germanic culture, almost to the point of frightening obsession. However, these traits have left her with a level of skittishness and shyness not common among her peers.

[b]History:[/b] 
Riley was born to a rather unhappy family in Barrowcliff parish, to a couple desperate to make an effort to stay together. From the beginning, her mother was doting and overprotective, her father even more so. They, deciding Barrowcliff was not a nurturing environment for their child, packed up and moved to Scalby parish, still in Scarborough but closer to open fields and further away from the city. Riley spent much of her spare time in the fields, near the woods, and around the lakes, believing that if she searched the area for long enough she'd find the fairies depicted in her books. One day, as she was searching for mythological creatures, she saw out of the corner of her eye an otter. She went to chase it, but it quickly jumped into a lake and dove under. Not breaking pace, she jumped in the lake after it, but never hit water.