Ingrid’s Quiet Loyalty

This flow follows Ingrid’s decision to protect Myfanwy across the predecessor’s disappearance and the successor’s emergence.

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An Executive Partnership

An Executive Partnership Support built from daily work Ingrid Woodhouse serves as Myfanwy’s executive assistant, organizing schedules, managing information, and smoothing the demands of a powerful but socially withdrawn Rook. Their relationship is professional, but regular work creates respect and familiarity. Ingrid understands the predecessor’s habits well enough to notice when something is wrong. That attention becomes crucial when the attack dismantles the life they have worked to maintain.

Finding the Broken Rook

Finding the Broken Rook A secret kept without explanation Ingrid finds Myfanwy injured, terrified, and losing her memories in the Rookery bathroom. She wants to call for medical help, but Myfanwy believes that doing so may expose her to the attackers. Ingrid helps her reach the hidden escape route and lets her leave without demanding a full explanation. She does not know whether the woman will return or whether speaking would put either of them in danger.

Recognizing the Successor

Recognizing the Successor Difference without betrayal When Myfanwy returns to work with black eyes and an unfamiliar manner, Ingrid recognizes that something has changed. She keeps quiet rather than alerting the Court, reasoning that disclosure could harm the woman who once trusted her. Ingrid’s restraint gives the successor room to learn the job and decide whom to trust. Her loyalty is not based on certainty about identity but on care for both women.

A Confession Returned

A Confession Returned Truth met with care Ingrid tells the successor what she witnessed on the night of the attack, including the predecessor’s fear and escape. Myfanwy reveals her memory loss in return, while keeping some discoveries and relationships private. The exchange turns a silent act of protection into a conscious alliance. Ingrid becomes the first trusted colleague to know that the Rook’s identity has changed in a profound way.

The Survivors’ Reunion

The Survivors’ Reunion Loyalty proven under attack During the final crisis, Ingrid is shot while helping defend the secure communications operation. Myfanwy initially fears that she has been killed, then learns that she survived and insists on seeing her. Their relief affirms a bond formed through trust rather than shared history alone. Ingrid’s survival gives the newly established Myfanwy a personal reason to imagine a future inside the organization.

Before the memory-erasure attack

The night Myfanwy is attacked

The successor’s first Monday

After the Gestalt interview

After the Apex confrontation