Editing Character:Meredith Seaton (section)

=== Background ===
Meredith is the daughter of the nixie Nerissa and a handsome, incautious and soon-drowned practitioner whose name Nerissa didn’t bother to get. Not wanting to spend enough time on land to raise a changeling herself, Nerissa provided the Summer Knight (then John Reuel) with treasure from sunken ships to endow a trust fund and hire caretakers for baby Meredith. Reuel did the best he could, finding human foster parents who seemed kind and were indebted to Summer, but they and Meredith never quite bonded. Meredith grew up lonely and awkward; after a few bad experiences, she became suspicious of anyone who wanted to get close to her, assuming they were after her for sex.