Regina

Regina is the tattooed witch whose magical assistance helps Brody Harrison conceal his activities and escape his enemies. Initially she exists at the edge of the investigation, remembered only through uncertain testimony and a brief earlier sighting. Once she appears openly, however, her inked body, black magic, and ability to vanish through portals establish her as a major supernatural threat and as Brody Harrison’s closest operational ally.

Identity and Introduction

Regina’s name enters the investigation indirectly. One witness first hesitates, then recalls hearing Eric refer to her by that name. When asked for identifying details, the witness describes a thin woman with long black hair, dark eyes, and tattoos covering nearly every part of her body except her face. The description is connected to a memory of seeing Brody Harrison speaking with a tattooed woman at Hallowed Grounds several months earlier, shortly after Brody Harrison and Anna had begun dating. Brody Harrison had dismissed the woman when questioned, and the apparent mismatch between her and his perceived preferences had caused the sighting to be overlooked. That dismissal becomes retrospectively significant: Regina was not a random acquaintance but part of the hidden network supporting Brody Harrison.

The investigation later identifies Regina more specifically as the witch Brody Harrison is using for magical cloaking. This gives practical meaning to her secrecy. Her concealment is not merely social or personal; it is an organized supernatural resource that helps Brody Harrison remain difficult to locate and shields his operations from ordinary discovery. Regina therefore enters the story through a chain of weak signals—an uncertain name, a remembered meeting, a distinctive tattoo pattern—before the evidence resolves into an active alliance.

Appearance and Magical Methods

When Regina finally stands beside Brody Harrison during the confrontation, her appearance confirms the earlier description while making it more threatening. She wears a black tank top and tight charcoal jeans torn along the legs, exposing pale skin densely marked with ink. Her long raven hair moves around her face as she chants, and the tattoos appear to pulse and writhe beneath the skin. The image joins bodily inscription to active spellwork: the tattoos are not passive decoration but part of the visual language through which the narrative presents her magic.

Regina’s powers include cloaking, offensive black magic, portal travel, and a form of blood-linked attack. During the battle, dark magic flies from her hands like small daggers, drawing blood from Birdie and then Talia. Later, she opens or uses an eerie green portal through which Logan’s wounded body falls, and she appears within the portal while chanting in a guttural tone. A new wound opens on a friend’s back as Regina brings blood from her long nails to her mouth and licks it. The sequence makes her threat bodily as well as spatial: she can strike from a distance, manipulate magical passageways, and turn injury into an intimate gesture of menace.

Her magic also provides escape. After Brody Harrison is knocked from his wolf body and collapses beside her, Regina pulls him back into the protection of her circle. When Brody Harrison calls her “Gina” and asks her to get them out, she responds by removing both of them from the scene; despite Birdie’s protest, the couple vanishes into thin air. Regina is consequently not only a combat mage but also the alliance’s extraction mechanism, capable of converting defeat into temporary survival.

Alliance with Brody Harrison

Regina’s relationship with Brody Harrison is defined by coordinated criminal power rather than by a fully explained personal history. Brody Harrison relies on her cloaking magic, appears with her during an assault on his opponents, and entrusts her with their escape. Their partnership is reciprocal: Brody Harrison brings the authority and physical force of a werewolf challenger, while Regina supplies concealment, spellcraft, and supernatural mobility. The two function as a compact opposing unit against the Somerville pack and its allies.

The alliance also exposes how Brody Harrison’s threat extends beyond werewolf politics. His campaign cannot be understood solely as a contest of strength between wolf packs because Regina’s magic gives it an occult infrastructure. The tattooed pregnant women found in Brody Harrison’s operation reveal the human cost of that broader system, while Regina’s role in cloaking and defending him shows how violence, secrecy, and magical expertise reinforce one another. She is not presented as an accidental accomplice pulled into Brody Harrison’s conflict; she repeatedly acts to protect him and to preserve their joint position.

Conflicts and Major Confrontations

Regina becomes an explicit target when Birdie declares that she has come to take Regina down and has brought Mirabelle and Deissy to help with the practical work of the confrontation. The statement places Regina at the center of the counterattack. Her defeat is not incidental damage from a larger battle but one of the operation’s stated objectives.

In the ensuing fight, howls grow louder around the combatants as battles rage through the yard. Regina’s black magic injures Birdie and Talia, and Talia’s response promises lethal retaliation. Regina nevertheless maintains control of the immediate field through her circle. When Brody Harrison’s wolf body is thrown near her, she reaches into his fur and pulls him back into safety. This rescue illustrates both her protective role and the limits of a straightforward physical assault: even after Brody Harrison is overpowered, Regina can restore the pair’s tactical advantage by shielding him.

Her later appearance through the green portal intensifies the threat. Logan emerges from it mortally wounded, his mouth producing only a gurgle before his eyes become glassy and his body tumbles out. Regina then occupies the portal’s center, her tattoos moving beneath her skin as she chants. The attack is presented through shock and partial comprehension, with the portal making her violence arrive from an unstable elsewhere. Yet her supernatural advantage does not make her invulnerable. Birdie strikes her with a second sparkly bolt, calling out “Yahtzee” as the attack hits Regina in the chest. Regina falls into the grass with her clothes smoldering and does not move.

Ending and Narrative Significance

Regina’s apparent defeat breaks the immediate protective partnership between her and Brody Harrison. Earlier, she had been the means by which Brody Harrison escaped; afterward, she lies motionless while Birdie stands over her. The contrast marks a reversal in the balance of power. Cloaking, portals, tattoos, and black magic have allowed Regina to remain elusive and dangerous, but direct resistance from the allied group finally turns her specialized power against her.

Regina’s narrative importance lies in the way she makes hidden structures visible. Her name is first recovered through uncertain recollection, her identity is linked to a remembered meeting at Hallowed Grounds, and her practical function is revealed through the discovery that she cloaks Brody Harrison. The story thus moves from social suspicion to supernatural confirmation. Her body carries the same movement: tattoos initially identify her, then pulse and writhe as signs of active magic, and finally become part of the spectacle of her defeat when her clothes smolder after Birdie’s bolt.

She also embodies the book’s recurring collision between ordinary institutional spaces and concealed supernatural systems. A woman remembered from a coffee-shop encounter becomes a witch capable of opening green portals, inflicting wounds without ordinary contact, protecting a werewolf in combat, and disappearing with him. Regina’s defeat therefore removes a powerful ally from Brody Harrison’s side, but it does not make the danger seem simple. It demonstrates that the opposition must confront not one isolated enemy but a network in which werewolf ambition and witchcraft cooperate.