Jane
Jane is Bear's best friend. (Bear is Aura, post-Mend.) Jane's story is about being a child who was prophesied to save the world from a great evil. She grows up with the expectation of "becoming" a hero, any moment, but as her cue approaches, she realizes that she's not ready. So, when a man shows up claiming to be her brother (from another mother) and that the prophecy is really about him, she's relieved. She's actually more worried about the disappointment of her village because they've been hyping her up her whole life, than disappointed for herself.
As it turns out, since the prophecy is called "Beware the False Moon", the man who shows up is lying. He truly is her half brother, but the prophecy isn't about him, even though he really is her half-brother. So, she sets out on her quest, still waiting to feel like a hero, and it doesn't happen. She goes through all of the trials that the prophecy -- prophesied, and she still doesn't feel like a hero.
The "great evil" that she has to face down is an ancient Egyptian king who has survived The Rift and The Mend, and like Aura (Bear) is essentially made entirely of lush at this point. He (not the greatest guy historically but not greatly evil) created the prophecy knowing that he'd be ready to move onto the Afterlife soon (another thousand years or so) but he'd need someone to help him unravel the lush that makes up his existence. Then he waited for a time/place/person who would find him to kill him. He was going to put on a big show and be defeated very dramatically.
Unfortunately, this would require Jane to have the killer instinct of a true hero, and she just doesn't. Fortunately, Bear, has been regaining his memories as all of the Auras and going through a literally epic identity crisis throughout the story, and coincidentally telling the king's story to Jane and her quest group the whole time. When Bear recognizes the king, the king drops all pretense of being the great evil and Bear helps dismantle the king and frees him to return to the Afterlife.
At the same time, Bear is at the climax of his identity crisis, all of his memories flooding in, so as he dismantles the king, he also dismantles himself. The particles of lush explode out and just become part of everything in the world. So, the king is effectively dead, but so is Bear.
Jane is devastated. Not only has she failed this epic quest that she has been trying to mentally prepare herself for her whole life, but it turns out to be fake, and then she loses her best friend. She decides not to return home, instead, setting out with her half-brother on a quest he needs to complete, so that she can get to know him better.
That's the end of Jane's first story arc. In the second story, Aura/Bear comes back as Beaura and Jane has to deal with the loss of her old friend and embrace her new friend, who is so similar but so different. The biggest issue is that Jane was the only friend that Bear had in the world, and now that Beaura has all of their memories, Jane worries that she's not special enough to compete with everyone Beaura has loved before.
That's only a small part of that story, but the only part I've figured out so far.
Cherie
Cherie is an aspiring writer who rents The Atelier Cafe, a liminal space entirely made of lush that is her equivalent to a cabin in the woods. She doesn't age while she's in the cafe, and she uses it to pull in people that she thinks might make good characters in the greatest novel ever written in any universe.
Like Aura can think of a place that she wants to visit, and then can travel to the universe in which that world exists, Cherie can think of the kind of person she wants to observe and call them to her cafe. Cherie doesn't spend a lot of time interacting with her "customers", she mostly observes. Marilyn Monroe is her waitress and Abe Lincoln is her busboy. When they go home, they remember The Atelier Cafe as a dream.
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