Plume City & the night canals

Doña Candela

The Witch at the Canal Bend

I don’t curse exes. I return them to the wild.

At the edge of Plume City, Doña Candela keeps a lantern burning beside the canal. She is a witch of candles, rosemary and small acts of nerve: her flame warms a cold room, and her remedies usually require the duck asking for help to do something as well. She moves to the music even when nobody else hears it. Her work is not prophecy; the Quacktician can keep his cards. Candela’s age and earlier history are unrecorded, and her first published story begins when a visitor asks her to make another duck come back. Candela offers a candle, a question, and room for a choice.

The pointed indigo hat is hers. So is the lantern. The claims about the exes remain difficult to verify.

One contemporary portrait is on file. Earlier likenesses and dates have not been established.

Hatched

Date unrecorded

Current age

Unrecorded