Sukey Davies
Names: Sukey DaviesSukeySue-Gwen DaviesLittle SisterSue-GwenGwen-MinivelDaughterdearlittleSisterSueCandidate Gwen-MinivelMinivelLittle Daughter
First appears in Book 1: The Many-Colored Land, chapter 27 (7)
Appearances
What you know
Book 1: The Many-Colored Land
- Ch 27Sukey, 27, is a former juvenile officer from an orbital colony whose silver torc activated latent redactor ability; she tried to heal Stein incompetently.
- Ch 27Sukey believes Earth is hollow and came to the Pliocene hoping to find a paradise inside it; she trusts Creyn's promise of belonging.
- Ch 32Sukey and Elizabeth were scandalized by the party and left early; Sukey glares at Aiken.
- Ch 34She can sense unfamiliar eager minds outside Darask, broadcasting on a wavelength different from humans and Tanu.
- Ch 36Sukey was a juvenile police officer on ON-15 before coming through the portal; she became an operant redactor only after getting her silver torc.
- Ch 36Sukey wears an ancient Welsh princess costume and had hoped to find the paradise of Agharta.
- Ch 36Sukey botched an earlier attempt to heal Stein, but completes the final discharge of his trauma with Elizabeth's guidance.
- Ch 36Sukey was in Group Yellow at the auberge; she and Stein pledge themselves to each other and complete their healing together.
Book 2: The Golden Torc
- Ch 2Sukey wears white and red, which she thinks are the heraldic colors of the redactor clan she is to be initiated into.
- Ch 2Sukey and Stein are a couple, and Aiken hints their union will displease the Tanu, who had other plans for them.
- Ch 3Sukey is a healer who helped redact Stein; she gave him rebirth and shelters his mind with love, and is married to him.
- Ch 3Sukey sang a Welsh lullaby, 'All Through the Night', whose healing energy calmed the whole hall; Dionket claimed her as reserved for the Redactors.
- Ch 6Sukey feels terror at being separated from Stein but trusts Aiken Drum to protect him; she wears a silver torc.
- Ch 6Sukey shields her thoughts behind an 'Elizabeth-style' mental barrier.
- Ch 7Stein's wife, a silver-torc woman, taken to Tasha-Bybar for fertility restoration; Mayvar and Dionket intended her to avoid the Thagdal.
- Ch 7Sukey, called Gwen-Minivel here, is a Candidate resting groggy in recovery room Three after treatment at Tasha's Redactor tower.
- Ch 7Sukey and Stein share a close mental bond; she realizes he broke free of Dedra and Mayvar's control to reach her.
- Ch 13Sukey wears a silver torc and is hidden in the catacombs beneath Redact House in Muriah; she apparently hears Stein's farspeech and replies that she loves him.
- Ch 21Sukey is Stein's lady, hidden in Redact House under protection of Dionket and Creyn.
- Ch 25Under coercion she let slip a vengeful thought about destroying the torc factory and shutting the time-gate to free human slaves.
- Ch 25She is a healer who was hidden in Redact House's catacombs, then redacted by the Queen and sent to the Thagdal as a love-gift.
- Ch 25She is pregnant by her husband Stein Oleson; Culluket strips her of Tanu status and condemns her to the Great Retort.
- Ch 30She lost her unborn first child, hid from Stein that it was not spontaneous, and still wears a silver torc; she repeatedly stops Stein's torc spasms.
- Ch 31Sukey will be offered a gold torc instead of her silver one, keeping her powers, while her mate Stein is to be freed as a bareneck.
- Ch 32Sukey is Stein's wife and a gold-torc woman who knows how to operate the balloon.
- Ch 33Sukey is a redactor-healer who removed the effects of Stein's torc and healed his old mind injuries through love.
- Ch 33Sukey was pregnant when interrogated on the Queen's orders and lost the baby; Stein did not know until Felice revealed it.
- Ch 34Sukey is a fourth-generation satellite-born woman from ON-15, whose sanity is shaky and who longs to flee to Agharta with Stein.
- Ch 34Sukey hopes to warn Elizabeth using the new golden torc, but a hostile mental voice that has screened her blocks and mocks her.
- Ch 34Sukey wears a golden torc that enables farspeech; her own farspeech is weak, and she cannot reach Elizabeth.
- Ch 34Sukey is told by Brede, even after her torc is cut away, to be at peace because it will happen as foreseen.
- Ch 41Sukey is pregnant, due in summer, and living safely with Stein in a cabin on an island in the Bordeaux marshes.
Connections
- related toAiken DrumAiken egged her on to probe Stein
- related toElizabeth OrmeElizabeth becomes her instructor
- partner ofStein Olesonpledge sealed after healing
- ally ofElizabeth Ormementor and fellow healer
- friend ofElizabeth Orme
- friend ofCreyn
- related toOlarteacher and controller
- family ofStein Olesonhusband and wife
- member ofON-15born on the satellite
- related toBredeBrede calls Sukey 'Little Daughter' and answers her mental call
Key moments
- Book 1 · Ch 27Sukey's botched redaction of Stein
Sukey, urged by Aiken, tried to heal Stein and was caught in his rage. Elizabeth intervened, freed Sukey, calmed Stein and began healing him.
- Book 1 · Ch 27Elizabeth begins teaching Sukey
Creyn asks Elizabeth to instruct Sukey on her new power; Elizabeth enters her mind and learns her background and hollow-Earth belief.
- Book 1 · Ch 28The Hunt glimpsed
The party sees a fast, multicolored streak of light, the Hunt, cross a ridge. Creyn refuses to explain it but hints Aiken might suit it.
- Book 1 · Ch 30Arrival at Roniah
Creyn's caravan with the captive time-travelers reaches the illuminated city past midnight, enters through the gate, and is greeted by Tanu nobles in the marble quarter.
- Book 1 · Ch 32Shooting Cameron's Sluice
The party boards the Mojo and rides the Rhône through violent rapids; most passengers are asleep or calmed, while Bryan stays awake and Highjohn offers him a job.
- Book 1 · Ch 34Prisoners lodged at Darask
The travelers stop at the Riverside Palace, where Kennedy locks the prisoners in a tower chamber, and Elizabeth is summoned to help Creyn with the dangerous birth.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Stein's final healing
Guided by Sukey and Elizabeth, Stein relives the harvester accident that killed his mother and his father's anguished words, then accepts them and is freed of guilt, fear and anger.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Stein learns of the torc and Exile
Sukey explains the Tanu, torcs and the human situation; Stein learns his gray torc controls him and declares he will never serve the Tanu.
- Book 1 · Ch 36Stein and Sukey pledge themselves
Stein invites Sukey to look into his mind and finds love there; they seal a pledge and complete each other's healing.
- Book 1 · Ch 38Descent of the Dreadful Slide
The riverboat goes over the continental brink at the end of the Rhône and plunges into the empty Mediterranean basin, ending after four hours in a great bitter lake. The torc-wearers refuse Creyn's offer of oblivion.
- Book 2 · Ch 2Time-travelers appear at the feast
The five time-travelers meet in new Tanu finery, joined by Aiken, who hints at coming mischief and shows he is working around his metafunction curb before the court procession.
- Book 2 · Ch 3Sukey's lullaby
Called to contribute her talent, Sukey sings a Welsh cradlesong that soothes the hall. Dionket declares her reserved for the Redactors.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Sukey brought to the College of Redactors
Creyn escorts Sukey by carriage up the Mount of Heroes, tells her of the Grand Combat, and leaves her with Olar at the House of Healing.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Tour of the House of Healing
Olar shows Sukey the Skin healing room, the deep-redact wards, the pregnant ramas and the Tanu and Firvulag infants.
- Book 2 · Ch 6Tasha-Bybar's dance
Left alone in the turret room with a clamped table, Sukey tries to flee but is held by Olar; Tasha-Bybar's bell dance overwhelms her and she loses consciousness.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Stein breaks free of Dedra's coercion
Enraged that Sukey's mind-call has stopped, Stein breaks Dedra's coercive hold and threatens her. She reveals Sukey is at Bybar's; Mayvar orders Dedra to take Stein there.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Stein kills Tasha-Bybar
Dedra brings Stein to the Redactor Guild tower to see Sukey. In her recovery room, Tasha-Bybar taunts him with a bell dance and he kills her with his sword despite Sukey and Dedra's attempts to restrain him.
- Book 2 · Ch 7Creyn reveals he is an ally
Creyn arrives after the killing, shows no anger, and tells Stein that Sukey must now be hidden until the Grand Combat and their plans must be accelerated.
- Book 2 · Ch 13Stein reaches Sukey by farspeech
Stein's attempt to farspeak Sukey appears to fail, but Aiken later detects her faint reply that she loves him.
- Book 2 · Ch 21Aiken and Stein plan torc liberation
Stein learns Group Green is coming with the Spear; Aiken promises to free the torcs and withholds the secret from Sukey.
- Book 2 · Ch 25Sukey's treason exposed
The Queen and Culluket reveal Sukey's plot knowledge and marriage to Stein; she is condemned as an outlaw human, and Stein is imprisoned.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Stein and Sukey in the cell
Sukey comforts Stein after her miscarriage and calms his torc spasm while concealing the truth; Stein begins to blame Aiken.
- Book 2 · Ch 30Aiken learns Stein's thoughts are a threat
Aiken and Mayvar overhear Stein's leaking thoughts; Mayvar suggests killing the pair, Aiken refuses, and she promises to send them out of Muriah that night.
- Book 2 · Ch 31Balloon escape of Stein and Sukey
Creyn brings Stein and Sukey to Elizabeth's balloon on the mountaintop and reveals Felice, whom Elizabeth is invited to save. The balloon then rises over Muriah and drifts southwest toward Gibraltar.
- Book 2 · Ch 32Felice awakens free and plans revenge
Felice wakes in the balloon, discards her dead torc, her mind regrows with full powers, and she resolves to destroy the Tanu, landing by a fjord to enlist Stein and Sukey.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Stein's torc is removed
Felice cuts off Stein's torc while Sukey heals his mind, leaving him whole.
- Book 2 · Ch 33Felice proposes flooding the Med Basin
Felice reveals her plan to open Gibraltar, and exposes that Thagdal had Sukey tortured while pregnant. Stein, enraged, agrees to reconnoiter.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Felice destroys the fjord
Felice blasts the fjord entrance and cindercone, burying the channel to create a dam; Stein is shocked into accepting that Pliocene Exile is real.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Felice breaks through the Gibraltar isthmus
Guided by Stein, Felice carves a crevice through the isthmus, falters, then draws on new power to unleash a shockwave; the Atlantic begins to flow through as a waterfall.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Stein cuts Sukey's torc
Watching the flood from the balloon, Stein, resolved to let the catastrophe proceed, cuts Sukey's golden torc with steel cutters to silence her. Brede still reaches her mind.
- Book 2 · Ch 34Isthmus breached and the Empty Sea floods
The isthmus gap widens as a torrent pours into the Empty Sea, with dust and smoke streaming over the Atlantic.
- Book 4 · Ch 21Aiken and Elizabeth confer
Aiken and Elizabeth discuss Marc's teleportation, a meeting to settle matters, and the Monte Rosa assault. Elizabeth shows him Stein, Sukey and baby Thor, and Aiken promises not to interfere.