Ember was the perfect embodiment of Maze in a smaller package.

The majority of the time she was very calm and quiet, and often James thought she looked like she was planning something. But when was in an awful mood? James almost felt bad for their neighbours.


As an adult, Maze had had time to learn to control his anger when it hit him, Ember was years away from any kind of control and when she was unhappy she snarled, shrieked, and bit anyone stupid enough to get their fingers near her tiny, sharp fangs. They also discovered very quickly that the heat wave that had happened during the labour was actually Ember’s doing and she did it every time she was cranky.

The only person she was always happy to see and spend time with was her grandmother. Hadley had only ever experienced Ember’s cranky side once when she had dropped by unexpectedly in the middle of a tantrum. After that little episode in which James only just managed to hand her to Maze and get out of the way before she exploded in heat and Maze nearly lost a finger, Hadley had taken to calling Ember her ‘Little Flame’.