Alesta Caulfield

Before
Alesta was born, the youngest child of an eight-person family of Scottish immigrants, in 1931. Her father used to own a farm, but they lost the farm during the Great Depression, and moved to the city to look for work. The boarding house they were in caught fire in 1938, and everyone died except for Alesta. No one really wanted or had the resources to deal with the eight-year old Scottish orphan, and she ended up in an orphanage, and then fell through the cracks to the Betwixt in 1939.

After
She was nine when she fell through to the Betwixt, and grew up there. For a decade or two, she was the companion of an ancient, forgotten mother-type goddess of a long-forgotten civilization, but once she grew up she was set off on her own. She was on her own for a long time, before she met Luc, and then [Adam], and finally Sansi.

Personality
She's spent around ninety years in the Betwixt, (although everything is sort of timeless for them, and twenty years could feel more like seven, or a single year feel like four), and has almost no memory of the real world. She's the leader of the Behinders, and is very assured of herself and her way in the Betwixt, despite how confusing and ever-changing it can be.