Teresa
Names: TeresaMamaTeresa KendallTeresa Kaulana Kendallthe enceinte divaMiz KendallKaulana
First appears in Book 1: Intervention, chapter 2 (1)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: Intervention
- Ch 4Source of the 'bodiless' mutagene in the Remillard line, according to Rogatien.
- Ch 21Teresa, daughter of Annarita Latimer and Bernard Kendall, is fully operant and mother of Marc Remillard and Jack the Bodiless.
Book 2: Jack the Bodiless
- Ch 4Teresa is Jack's mother; she blamed her own hubris for his suffering.
- Ch 5Teresa is Paul's wife, pregnant with a child called Maddy and nearly due. She is not operant like the Remillards but shields her mind from Marc.
- Ch 5Teresa is a coloratura soprano and Paul's wife, mother of Marc and Marie, pregnant with a daughter to be named Madeleine.
- Ch 6Is secretly five months pregnant in violation of the Reproductive Statutes; the fetus has lethal genetic traits, and she believes it communicates with her.
- Ch 6Maintains a grandmaster-class mental barrier no Remillard has breached, and resents the Proctorship and Milieu for costing human freedom and dignity.
- Ch 6Agrees to an abortion the next morning before Paul returns, but is actually deceiving Lucille and privately resolves to save the child.
- Ch 7Teresa, an opera singer, removed her own contraceptive implant and is pregnant, feeling obliged to bear the child despite the revoked reproduction license.
- Ch 7Teresa has had five dead babies, stillborn or aborted, carrying lethal sex-linked mutations; she says this fetus speaks to her telepathically.
- Ch 7Teresa was a great soprano whose voice was silenced; she is now secretly pregnant in violation of the law, and faces possible punishment or madness.
- Ch 8Teresa was a nineteen-year-old Hawaiian-descended operatic prodigy and celebrity, with a high sopra acutissima voice, and was mildly metapsychically operant.
- Ch 8After repeated stillbirths and aborted defective fetuses, her voice declined, she suffered breakdowns, and was found to be founder of a mutagene complex and given a contraceptive implant.
- Ch 8Teresa knew Paul was unfaithful but never reproached him; his betrayal fueled her determination to have one last, supremely endowed child.
- Ch 9Teresa is pregnant with a baby she calls Jon, who already communicates with her and says he will be born easily and small.
- Ch 9Teresa packed music equipment, a fleck library, champagne and survival books but almost no clothes for four months in the wilderness.
- Ch 9Teresa is charming and unworldly; she never learned to fly and finds navigation a bore.
- Ch 9Teresa is addressed as 'Mama' by Marc and needs to use the loo while they are at the airport gate.
- Ch 10Teresa is illegally pregnant and has run away with Rogi and Marc; she is considered insane and will be hidden in the wilderness.
- Ch 10Teresa is pregnant and will hide with Rogi at the Ape Lake cabin until the baby is born.
- Ch 12Teresa is pregnant, considered mentally unstable, and her singing voice was believed lost forever.
- Ch 12She senses animals telepathically and speaks of describing the place to Jack, her unborn child, who is very interested.
- Ch 12She sings to the evening-star planet and to her child, her voice restored to its old magical richness.
- Ch 15Teresa is Paul's wife and an opera singer, secretly pregnant; her body has not been found after the canoe drowning.
- Ch 17Teresa is a pregnant opera singer who has sung Queen of the Night. She bakes well, is unafraid of heights, and communes mystically with the fetus.
- Ch 17Teresa builds the cache floor and tarp frame, and plans to bake blueberry pie and decent bread.
- Ch 18Teresa is Paul's pregnant wife; she apparently fled with Rogi on August 24, taking a baby bunting, likely to hide somewhere in the Yukon area to bear the child.
- Ch 20Teresa is pregnant with Jack, is a musician who composed a 'Swan Sonata', and believes Jack's birth will rekindle Paul's love.
- Ch 20Teresa snared snowshoe hares to make fur blankets and a baby robe, and the couple ate hare for weeks.
- Ch 22Teresa is pregnant with Jack and hiding at Ape Lake; she refuses to let Rogatien farspeak Denis, finding him cold and fearing he'd favor the family.
- Ch 22Teresa inventoried the supplies and told Rogatien they had under three weeks of food, so Marc was probably not coming.
- Ch 22Teresa is pregnant with Jack, and Rogi believes her unborn child is central to the ghost's schemes.
- Ch 24Teresa is pregnant with Jack, was reported dead in a faked death plot, and is wary of Denis because he comes on strong.
- Ch 26Alive in secret and about to give birth to a boy with a supermind, Jack, who carries lethal genes.
- Ch 26Teresa Kendall is dead; she sang the 'Cantique de Noël' better than anyone.
- Ch 27Teresa is heavily pregnant and a devout Catholic; she believes God created minds out of love and became incarnate to reach humanity.
- Ch 27Teresa, once a great singer, sings again at Christmas, performing The Snow Maiden for Rogi with Jack's illusions, restoring her lost magic.
- Ch 27Teresa's own creative metafunction is not strong enough to project elaborate illusions.
- Ch 27Pregnant, she sings the whole Snow Maiden role and ends exhausted but joyful, insisting it went beautifully.
- Ch 27She explains the opera's ending borrows from an ancient Slavic rite of sacrificing a maiden to placate the sun god and ensure harvests.
- Ch 27Asks Rogi, calmly, whether he is glad that humanity no longer has gods demanding such sacrifices.
- Ch 29Teresa taught Jack about pain and prayer, explaining that prayer was positive coercion of oneself and God that could turn suffering into strength.
- Ch 29Teresa is a singer and artist whose singing distracted her from loving her husband and children; she had borne four babies by natural childbirth.
- Ch 29Teresa refused to farspeak Denis or Paul, fearing enemies would detect her, and wanted to present Paul with Jack face-to-face.
- Ch 29Teresa promised Jack that she and Rogi would guard his mind from outside threats if he became vulnerable during birth.
- Ch 29Teresa had a past stillbirths, abortions, and the in-utero death of Marc's twin Matthieu, which she did not mention.
- Ch 29Teresa gives birth with little distress, communicates telepathically with her baby, and plans a week of rest and nursing afterward.
- Ch 29Teresa asks Rogi to baptize Jack the next day, citing the unusual circumstances.
- Ch 30Teresa gave birth illicitly, violating the Reproductive Statutes, and is hiding from the authorities; she says Jack's body is flawless.
- Ch 30Teresa hides her hurt at Paul's refusal to see her, saying she will do whatever Paul thinks best.
- Ch 31Teresa believes Jack is healthy and has put out of mind any thought of congenital disease; she has been pardoned.
- Ch 31Teresa forgave Paul and accepts that his political duties will keep him distant from her and Jack.
- Ch 32Her case led to reducing an operant's breach of the Reproductive Statutes to a Class Two felony with no death penalty, and the child entitled to the best care.
- Ch 32Teresa believes Paul voted publicly against the pardon for show and hopes the Concilium Directorate or the Dirigent will pardon her and Rogi.
- Ch 32She and Rogi face trial in November for violating the Reproductive Statutes by bringing about Jack's birth.
- Ch 33Teresa accepts an offer to sing Turandot at the Met opening, saying she has fully recovered after exile at Ape Lake.
- Ch 35Teresa Kendall is a singer due to perform at the Met, mother of Jack; she was driven by a subrational compulsion to have him.
- Ch 35Teresa says she would not conceive another child knowing what she now knows, but still feels it was right to have Jack.
- Ch 36Her comeback as Turandot in New York was a triumph, though her voice was no longer as agile and her top notes were rare.
- Ch 38Teresa, pardoned and back with Paul, resumed substitute opera engagements, triumphing as Renata in The Fiery Angel at La Scala, and is a little jealous of Marc and Jack's closeness.
- Ch 39Teresa gave a disastrous concert in Moscow, cancelled her engagements and vowed not to sing until Jack was cured.
- Ch 39After Jack's pancreatic cancer she had a nervous breakdown, demanded he be allowed to die in peace, and just before Christmas began speaking of him in the past tense.
- Ch 40Teresa is an invalid confined to her bedroom with a nurse; Paul is her husband.
- Ch 40Teresa was found cold and motionless by Rogi after midnight mass, with an empty pill bottle beside her bed.
- Ch 41Teresa committed suicide with pills while Jack slept, and in her deranged state tried to force him to die with her.
- Ch 41Her will requested her ashes be returned to Kauai, her birthplace, and that Jack be cremated and interred with her.
- Ch 45Rogi recalls Teresa embracing her newborn son in a snowbound cabin, later lying dead in her bed; Jack's anise-like scent reminds him of her.
- Ch 47Her ashes were removed from the kahuna's cave on Kauai and scattered over the island by Marc, Rogatien and Jack.
Book 3: Diamond Mask
- Ch 1Teresa was mother of Marc and Jack; Rogi protected her during her greatest crisis, and her ashes were scattered over Kauai's ridges.
- Ch 1Her ashes were brought to Keaku Cave by Rogi and the Ghost after a funeral Mass at St. Raphael's.
- Ch 8Teresa was Paul's wife; she took her own life in the family home in Hanover.
Connections
- family ofAnnarita Latimerdaughter
- family ofBernard Kendalldaughter
- family ofMarcson
- family ofJackson
- family ofPaulwife
- partner ofPaulmarried
- family ofLucillemother-in-law
- family ofUnborn childmother
- family ofLucson
- family ofElaine Donovan Harringtongranddaughter
- ally ofRogi Remillardhides her in the wilderness and protects her
- friend ofHerman
- friend ofRogi Remillardclose companion at Ape Lake; Jack calls him uncle
- related toRogi RemillardCares for her; attends her performance and tends her afterward
- related toSpencer Delevanattorney for
- related toJacqui Delaruehousekeeper
Key moments
- Book 2 · Ch 4Rogi's recurring nightmare
Rogi recounts his nightmare: Jack's birth, his body's disintegration, his brain surviving, Marc's turn to enhancement, and the Metapsychic Rebellion ending in a planet's destruction.
- Book 2 · Ch 5Rogi drives Teresa and Marc to Berlin
Rogi drives Teresa and Marc to Berlin for the Good Friday ritual; Marc probes Rogi's mind and Teresa explains death and heaven to him.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc spies on Lucille and Teresa
Marc secretly scans his mother and grandmother, learning Teresa is five months pregnant illegally and that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion the next morning.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Marc offers to save the child
After Lucille leaves, Marc contacts Teresa, shows her a plan, and touches her belly to sense the unborn child, who seems to have expected him.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc reveals the pregnancy
On the drive, Marc explains that Teresa is five months pregnant, that Lucille and Severin plan an abortion, and that he finds the fetus extraordinary and opposes aborting it; Rogi is unconvinced.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Marc enlists Rogi to hide Teresa
Outside Marc's home, Marc tells Rogi he plans to hide his illegally pregnant mother until the baby is born, and asks for Rogi's help.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Wedding of Paul and Teresa
Paul and Teresa married on the Met stage in the Snow Maiden set, officiated by the Archbishop of Manchester-in-New-Hampshire, with family and opera company attending.
- Book 2 · Ch 8Teresa's reproductive tragedies
After Marc, Marie, Madeleine and Luc, stillbirths and aborted defective fetuses led to revocation of Paul and Teresa's reproductive license, and Teresa's decline.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Marc enlists Rogi to stay with Teresa
Teresa's packing proves hopelessly unsuitable; Marc decides Rogi must stay with her in the Reserve cabin and Rogi reluctantly agrees.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Flight to Boston to cover tracks
Marc disguises the egg, files a false flight plan and flies to Logan Airport to plant a false trail, before a multi-city route to British Columbia.
- Book 2 · Ch 9Escape from the airport gate in a disguised egg
Marc alters the egg's transponder during the five-minute parking limit, then orders the egg to exit. They re-enter controlled airspace at Cambridge under a new registration and head for Montréal at 2000 kph.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Supply shopping across the continent
En route west, Rogi, Teresa and Marc shop at Denver and Williams Lake for tools, clothing, and food for four months in the wilderness; Rogi also buys a rifle.
- Book 2 · Ch 10Departure into the Megapod Reserve
At Nimpo Lake, Parmentier loads the party onto his Beaver, unaware that Marc will coerce him to fly deeper into the Reserve.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Arrival at Ape Lake
A floatplane drops Rogi and Teresa at Ape Lake. Rogi hides their supplies, inspects the ruined cabin, pitches a tent, and finds a usable latrine hut.
- Book 2 · Ch 12Teresa sings again
At dusk Teresa fills a water container, then sings to the evening-star planet and her child. Her lost voice has returned, filling Rogi with awe and foreboding.
- Book 2 · Ch 16Unifex's judgment on the Remillards and the Proctorship
Unifex rules that Teresa and Rogi are alive but that the Magistratum won't be told, dismisses suspicion of Marc, and decides the Proctorship ends, with a one-year probation and colonization moratorium to be announced tactfully to Earth.
- Book 2 · Ch 17Settling in at Ape Lake
Rogatien and Teresa spend a week building a food cache, the shelter Le Pavillon and a stove porch, hiding from passing aircraft until September 1.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Cabin completed
Rogi and Teresa finished repairing and furnishing the cabin by 23 October, with a new roof, stove, furniture, and snowshoes made ready for winter.
- Book 2 · Ch 20Heavy snow begins
On 30 October the lake froze over and heavy snow began, as Rogi reflected happily on their life halfway through their stay.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Rogatien sets out to hunt
With food running out and Marc absent, Rogatien leaves Teresa at the cabin and snowshoes down Ape Creek Canyon with a rifle, telling her to farspeak Denis if he is not back in six days.
- Book 2 · Ch 22Denis finds Rogi
Rogi's triumphant telepathic shout, sent along Teresa's intimate mode, reaches Denis, who replies 'Gotcha Uncle Rogi!'
- Book 2 · Ch 24Denis touches Jack's mind
Denis probes Teresa's fetus; Jack identifies him, greets him as Grandpère and slams down an extraordinary screen, leaving Denis shaken.
- Book 2 · Ch 24Rogi confides about the Family Ghost, then collapses and is rescued
Rogi tells Denis about the Lylmik Family Ghost and the Great Carbuncle, falls ill from overeating, collapses on Ape Lake's ice hallucinating Elaine, and wakes in the cabin tended by Teresa.
- Book 2 · Ch 26Marc reveals secret to siblings
Marc tells Marie, Maddy and Luc that their mother is alive and pregnant, then blocks their minds to prevent leaks.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Teresa explains Christmas and faith to Jack
While decorating a small Christmas tree, Teresa discusses with her unborn son why God would create minds and become incarnate, answering with love and faith.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Christmas dinner and gifts
Rogi returns with firewood, and they share a moose dinner, hot buttered rum, and the lit candles. Rogi gives wooden safety pins and a papoose carrier plan.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Teresa performs The Snow Maiden
Teresa sings the opera for Rogi in costume, with Jack projecting illusory scenery from her memories; her singing voice is restored.
- Book 2 · Ch 27Teresa's performance of the Snow Maiden ends
After the opera's tragic finale, Teresa collapses exhausted but happy into Rogi's arms. He settles her on her bed and she explains the sacrificial rite behind the story.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Teresa prepares Jack for birth
After Jack 'lightened', Teresa spoke to him for hours about birth, pain and prayer, and promised he would be guarded.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Labor begins in the cabin
On Epiphany in extreme cold, Teresa prepares the cabin and bed for birth; Rogi lies to Denis about the labor and Teresa's waters break.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Rogi aids Jack through birth pain
Jack cries out in agony as he moves through the birth canal; Rogi merges minds with him and steadies him until Jack regains control.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Birth of Jack
With Rogi's help, Teresa delivers Jack in the cabin. Rogi revives him, cuts the cord, and Jack telepathically thanks them before his mind withdraws into infancy.
- Book 2 · Ch 29Champagne toast and Rogi goes out
After tending Teresa and the afterbirth, they toast with champagne. Near midnight Rogi goes out for firewood, unaware of creatures watching from the east.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Denis rescues the fugitives
Before dawn, Denis and Fred arrive in a Poltroyan orbiter above the cabin, terrifying Jack, and announce they will take Teresa, Rogi and Jack to Kauai to hide until pardons are arranged.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Jack meets Denis
Jack meets his grandfather Denis, accepts a pat but refuses mental contact and says he cannot love him. Denis then reports that Paul will not see them yet.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Marc meets baby Jack
Marc sees Jack's healthy body, bonds mentally with him, and clashes when Jack coerces him. Marc agrees to mentor Jack and promises to explain lethal genes.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Pardon rider defeated
The Intendant Assembly passed the law easing penalties for operants violating the Reproductive Statutes, but a rider pardoning Teresa and Rogi was struck, with Paul voting against it. MacGregor signed the law on 10 May 2052.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Family reacts at Teresa's house
Rogi, Marc and the children gather with Teresa. She explains the pardon options; Marc angrily criticizes Paul, and Rogi sends him away.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Pardon denied
Paul reports to the family that the Directorate voted five to four against pardoning Teresa and Rogi. Denis expects clemency from Davy MacGregor, and Teresa plans to sing Turandot.
- Book 2 · Ch 35Teresa and Rogi pardoned
Facing media hounding, Teresa and Rogi meet Dirigent MacGregor alone; he asks his questions and pardons both without condition.
- Book 2 · Ch 36Teresa's Turandot triumph
Teresa's opening night as Turandot in New York is a triumph; Paul reconciles with her backstage and moves back home to Hanover the next day.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Jack's cancers begin
From spring 2053 Jack develops toe carcinoma, testicular melanomas (removed surgically), then Ewing's sarcoma requiring limb amputations, and finally pancreatic cancer that metastasizes to vital organs, putting him on life support.
- Book 2 · Ch 39Teresa's collapse
Teresa breaks down, demands Jack be allowed to die, is sedated and bedded at home; Paul leaves again, and before Christmas she begins speaking of Jack in the past tense.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Remillard Christmas caroling
Rogi led thirty-four cousins in carols under Teresa's window, then took hay wagons to the hospital to carol for Jack, who gave each child a miniature white rose.
- Book 2 · Ch 40Teresa found dead
After midnight mass, Rogi visited Teresa's room, glimpsed a phantom man kissing her, then found her hand cold and an empty pill bottle.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Teresa's suicide
Teresa took pills and died, trying to drag Jack into death with her; he fell into a ten-hour coma and new cancers appeared.
- Book 2 · Ch 41Teresa's ashes taken to Keaku Cave
After a service at Saint Raphael's, Rogi, Marc and Malama took Teresa's ashes to Keaku Cave, where Malama and Marc placed them with leis.
- Book 2 · Ch 47Human enfranchisement and Teresa's ashes
On 3 October 2054 humanity becomes a full Milieu member; afterward Marc, Rogatien and Jack scatter Teresa's ashes over Kauai.
- Book 4 · Ch 9Paul speaks of his marriage and infidelity
While Jack dresses for his wedding, Paul recounts falling for Teresa, the family's genetic tragedies, the end of their love, and his promiscuity, with Jack asking probing questions.