Finch grew up in the forests of the northeastern United States. Her father was a dragon with psychic gifts, and her mother was a gray fox. She was given the birth name "Tayna" but later nicknamed Finch, since she often sang. She grew up in a cottage, and her childhood was a happy time, filled with friends and summers and trips to the nearby pond.

From an early age, she was told about her psychic gifts and how necessary it was for her to develop them, however, she preferred playing in the woods.

i think you should come live with me, and we can be pirates

One morning, Finch was reading by the pond's sandy edge, when she hear a noise a the tree above her. She looked up, and there was a young fox her age sitting in the branches. The boy said he was an explorer and that he didn't have anyone to explore with. Finch told him they could be explorers together. She introduced herself. He told her his name was Malachi, but he hated that name, and people often called him Mal. From that day forward, they became great friends.

As the years went by, Finch grew into a kind and generous young girl. Both twelve years old, she and her friend Mal spent a lot of time exploring and playing pirates or pretending to be knights. They were partners in crime, always getting into trouble. When Finch told him about her paranormal gifts, they became ghost hunters together. He was a good and loyal friend, very brave but often foolish.

it's a war out there

But then, after a sly fox stole a precious magical artifact from an elder dragon in a land far away, a great rivalry broke out between foxes and dragons. Things were very hard for Finch after that. Her parents' marriage was healthy and strong, but outside forces began to tear them apart. They were forced to take their respective sides. Finch, having both dragon and fox blood in her veins, remained neutral.

Eventually when Finch was ten, the rivalry turned into an all out war, with the dragons having the advantage of their magic and the foxes guided by their cleverness and agility. As for our protagonist, her mother was killed by dragons, and Finch was forced to move out of the cottage with her father, leaving Mal behind. She missed him terribly. All the adventures, all the fun, all of it had come to an end. She promised to write. She also told him that someday she would be back. Whether she would return in a month or seventy years, she didn't know, but she promised to see him again when she could.

what died didn't stay dead. you're alive, you're alive in my head

Sooner than she thought she would, Finch returned to her hometown. She received a letter from Mal, explaining that his parents had been killed. Finch's father kicked her out when she told him she was going to visit Mal. After all, Mal was a fox, and Finch's father was a dragon. Finch decided to side with the foxes and made her trip home.

Home was very different when she arrived. All the houses and shops were boarded up, street lamps were blown out, and ash hung in the air, settling on the earth like snow. Even Mal was different, changed by war. He was a fighter now, too young to be a soldier, but still the protector of his family. He had failed at this duty. Traumatized, he was not the same person Finch knew. He carried around a gun, and his eyes were dull. Mal didn't think Finch would come back, but was happy to have her with him again. They decided to leave the northeast in search of a safer place.

But just when Finch thought she had found a place where she belonged with her best friend, Mal, the town was attacked from the skies, and Mal perished in the distruction. Finch was forced to leave everything she thought she knew. It was the worst kind of pain imaginable. She had lost everything-- her best friend, her parents, her home. She had no one and nothing and noplace to go.

well, we'll still be there when your war is over

With the war drawing to a close, Finch left everything behind in search of a new home. Across the country she traveled, over mountains, through forests, and across deserts. She traveled many places and met many people, but she never found anywhere she truly belonged. But, remembering her paranormal gifts, she decided it was time to finally develop them. Maybe that way, she could find the answer.

When the war finally ended, she had fully become a vagrant, always searching for a home she could never find, and trying her best to communicate with all the people she had lost.

listen, the birds sing

Although Finch went through hell and back, she was eventually able to see a new sunrise. Nowardays, she knows her mother and her friend Mal are never really gone, and that she has the ability to communicate with them. All she needs to do is develop her gifts.

Finch tries to have as much fun as she can. What she went through was horrible, and she shows signs of being severely trauatized by it, but she tries to bury her feelings as best she can. She tends to ignore the pain and pretend it's not there. She knows this is an unhealthy way of coping, but it's all she can do for now.

All she can do is look to the horizon.