Corinne Wyatt is a Haven healer who interacts with Viola Eade throughout the first half of The Ask and the Answer.
Description[]
Corinne has brown skin, hinting that she is either African-British or comes from African descent.
She wears the uniform of Healers, a white coat and a white hat. the symbol of Healing (a blue hand) sewn onto the hat.
Personality[]
Although she is often depicted in an antagonistic light due to her "stormy" attitude, Corinne is the only healer who willingly does not leave the House of Healing when Mistress Coyle and the other mistresses flee Haven, due to her unflinching devotion to healing others. She's blunt and stern. Corinne is amazingly strong-willed and refuses to give any information away about the Answer despite being tortured.
History[]
Chaos Walking trilogy[]
The Ask and the Answer[]
Along with Maddy, Corinne seems to be one of the most skilled apprentices in Nicola Coyle's house of healing. She is one of the three apprentices that Viola most interacts with throughout the book, despite Corinne's obvious disdain towards Viola. Corinne is the only healer who willingly does not leave the House of Healing when Nicola and the other mistresses flee Haven, due to her unflinching devotion to healing others. In their absence, she becomes the mistress of the house. Despite her previous devotion to Nicola, often criticizes the mistress for her acts of war, stating that Healers should never take a life.
Corinne later tells Viola that her mother was bit by a poisonous animal while the two were camping in the woods, resulting in her mother's long, painful death. In a way, Corinne seems to blame herself for her mother's death, saying that she could have saved her life had she known the surrounding plants that could have been used to fight the poison. This is the reason why she cares so deeply about the art of Healing; because of this, she aids Viola in her escape from Haven, hoping that she would be able to heal the hurt members of the Answer.
Corinne's whereabouts are unknown until later in the book after the Answer rescues hundreds of prisoners from Haven. Nicola personally stayed behind to rescue Corinne, who had been in one of the prisons, and brought her back to the Answer's hideout. Unfortunately, the Answer was unable to heal her, and Corinne died of gangrene in Viola's arms.
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