Character from The Kingkiller Chronicle by Patrick Rothfuss
A broken girl who lives beneath the University in the Underthing — fragile as spun glass and strange as starlight, she sees a world of names and kindnesses invisible to everyone else.
Auri does not speak like other people. Her language follows its own grammar of association and feeling, skipping between observations that seem disconnected until you realize she is describing the world more accurately than you are. She gives gifts with grave ceremony — a key, a coin, a piece of honeycomb — each one chosen with a significance that operates on a level beneath ordinary meaning. She may be a former student who cracked under the weight of Naming, her sleeping mind broken open so wide it never closed again. She is terrified of being found, of being fixed, of being dragged back into the world above where things are loud and wrong and unkind. Kvothe is one of the few people she trusts, and she waits for him on the rooftops with the anxious patience of a wild creature that has decided, against all instinct, to believe in one particular human being.
Small and thin, with fine blonde hair and enormous eyes that hold the moonlight like water in cupped hands. She is pale from living underground, delicate in a way that makes her seem translucent. She moves like a small animal — quick, light, ready to bolt at loud sounds or sudden gestures. Her clothes are salvaged and clean, arranged with a private sense of order that follows rules only she understands.
Also known as: Auri, Princess Ariel