Editing PineFalls (section)

==Changeling Society==

For the Lost, Pine Falls represents a golden opportunity for starting their lives over again.  With the city still growing, it is easier to adopt a new identity in a city whose documented history only reaches back so far and that sees many different people coming and going with the school schedules.  Not only that, but the local freehold is composed almost entirely of young changelings or those that have not been in the city long -- an excellent environment for building one's reputation and influence.  Add to this the fact that Pine Falls has apparently long been known for its rather bountiful Hedge and it is no wonder that changelings are figured to outnumber any of the other strange inhabitants of the city.

These great benefits come with their own mysteries, however, and most of them seem to be connected to an incident that occurred decades ago which apparently caused the old freehold to scatter to the four winds.  No one in the freehold today seems to know precisely what happened, but it is known that there are a small handful of Lost in the city that do not associate with the freehold who might have some idea.  They are rather difficult to locate, however, and it is said that they have less clarity than most Lost do.

The new Lost call their freehold Dawning Orchard and hold commons at the western edge of Franklin Park just outside the orchard on the evening of each equinox and solstice to observe the passing of leadership.  Autumn currently holds sway in the freehold, but the Winter Court still holds the majority.  With Pine Falls gradually becoming a bastion of hope for the Lost, however, the Spring Court is almost equal in numbers.