Buttonwharf Hollow
Elara
“A child the height of a chair back, with a striped scarf, bright cheeks, and a satchel full of ribbons, buttons, and folded scraps tied in cheerful bundles.”
Elara is a child who stands as tall as a chair back and lives for the warm, bustling feeling of a room coming alive around her. She can be wonderfully dramatic and a little too certain of herself, which sometimes leads her to overdo things when she wants everything to feel festive and bright.
2 stories feature Elara
Where you've met them
The Wharf Without Buttons
At the start of market day, every button tied to the wharf ropes has come loose, so the docking lines keep slipping free and boats cannot stay put. Unless the buttons are sorted and fastened again before the next tide surge, the whole wharf will drift into a tangle of bumping hulls.
The Sparrows Build a Nest in the Warning Bell
River sparrows weave a nest inside the tide warning bell and refuse to move their eggs. The hollow needs the bell before high water, but ringing it now would frighten the smallest new lives on the wharf.