Cecilia Ashe
Names: Cecilia AsheCeleCeciliaCelineAunt CeleDr. AsheCelebabeCeline RemillardCelia MacKendalCeline Mireille Ashe Remillard
First appears in Book 2: Jack the Bodiless, chapter 5 (2 A RETROSPECTIVE DIGRESSION BERLIN, NEW HAMPSHIRE, EARTH 30 MARCH 2040)
Appearances
What you know
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 5Cecilia is a neurosurgeon who married widowed Maurice Remillard seven months ago; this is her first Good Friday ritual.
- Ch 5Cecilia is a neurologist, Maurice's second wife, attending the family prayer custom for the first time.
- Ch 44Cecilia is Maurice's wife and Marc's aunt; she sedates Marc by force when his body monitors show he is excited.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 6Cele is a Hydra member who craves young victims and is reluctant to spare the children.
- Ch 7Mentally unstable Hydra, Maurice's daughter by Cecilia Ashe; prone to mood swings and sadomasochistic sexual activity with Parnell as reality-partner.
- Ch 20Celine will arrive on Earth in thirty-three days by a roundabout route, with Fury altering computer data to hide her travel.
- Ch 22Celine, a fair-haired, turquoise-eyed and insane Hydra unit, could transform into a black multi-armed monster that threw energy balls and hurled rocks.
- Ch 22Celine died in the bog, her skin and both arms torn away as she was dragged through the rocky shaft by Dee's blast.
- Ch 23Daughter of Maurice Remillard and Cecilia Ashe, identified by DNA as the woman who attacked Dorothée; she was found dead in a cave, believed the Islay killer.
- Ch 23Her ashes were scattered over the Atlantic after a private Catholic memorial service; the identification was kept secret.
Connections
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 5Family metaconcert at Victor's bedside
The Remillards gather to pray; Denis links their minds in a metaconcert for Victor, but Rogi keeps his shields up and is confronted by the monstrous Fury, then rescued by a red sphere.
- Book 2 · Ch 23Krondak enclave tour
Marc takes seven young cousins to Lurakal, where Loga'etoo Tilk'ai hosts them and shows them the connubial vat's viewing chamber.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc wakes in hospital
Marc wakes after the race crash, learns his injuries and that his attacker was his cousin Gordo, who died. Family visits and advises him to tell police only facts.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Marc sedated and escapes monitoring
Cecilia sedates Marc to stop his agitation. He recovers, loops his monitor bugs, fails to reach MacGregor, and begins to leave the hospital to protect Jack.
- Book 2 · Ch 44Hydra children's ambush of Rogi
Madeleine and others lure Rogi to Paul's house with a false emergency and try to coerce him. He recognizes them, shields his mind and uses the Great Carbuncle; a flash of light returns him to his garage.
- Book 2 · Ch 46Hydras take refuge on Islay
Following Fury's instructions, the four Hydra heads land the red egg at Sanaigmore Farm, hide it in the barn, and settle into the farmhouse to wait for the uproar to cool.
- Book 2 · Ch 46Maddy discovers prey on Islay
Maddy senses numerous bright auras of natural suboperants on Islay's south coast and the group resolves to proceed cautiously so as not to give themselves away.
- Book 3 · Ch 6Hydra plots the ambush
Telepathically, Hydra members revise their plan: leave Dee and Ken alive, lure the three researchers to Geodh Ghille Mhóire and subdue them silently to feed.
- Book 3 · Ch 7Hydra children flee to Islay
After Hydra's attacks on Rogatien, Marc and Jack failed in 2054, the four Hydra children vanished and hid at Sanaigmore Farm on Islay under false identities.
- Book 3 · Ch 20The conspirators regroup under Fury
Fury consoles the failed attackers, promises Celine's arrival in thirty-three days and urges a stronger assault before Dee goes to Orb; Parni and Maddy voice doubts about Fury.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Fight in the caves
Chased by the Hydra units, Dee is burned but kills Celine's monster form with stones and escapes via a hurricane blast of cave-wind, landing in a bog.
- Book 3 · Ch 22Jack finds Celine's body
Jack, who secretly watched, confirms Celine is dead and plans to later help heal Dee, while Madeleine and Parnell vanish.
- Book 3 · Ch 23Aftermath on Islay
Dorothée is healed with Jack's help; Magistratum agents take over, the attacker is identified as Celine Remillard and her ashes are scattered, with the case sealed.