Lady Angela

Years ago, Lady Angela was Angela Henson, younger sister of Leroy Henson. The Henson family were notorious for thievery and violence. They regularly robbed from the Post-Diluvial Services wagons, pilfering cheese for their cheese fries, and anything else that could be resold at Leroy's Foos Ball and Poolhall. Angela detested these dastardly deeds; she was cut from a different clothe. Since her early teen years, Angela received celestial directives. They came to her as visions, out on the grass plains. Strange humans wearing golden circlets around their brows, with large animal companions, pleaded with her to go into the future, where her leadership was greatly needed. She did not know what to make of these visions, at first, but as they progressed she came to learn of her place in time. Her place, the visitors told her, was in the future. She had a mission, which could only be realized with the help of the Fur People. She did not share these visions with her family, they could not understand. They only one who could help her, she figured, must be George Conley. He was known throughout Pouteau county as a leading time traveler, with knowledge of other realities. As a poet, he might not find Angela's visions too strange or unbelievable. He himself had a bond with the unseen world. Unfortunately, he was also her brother Leroy's sworn enemy. They were the same age, and had an ongoing rivalry. George, being more good-looking and talented, really irked Leroy.
George Conley didn't have an overriding sense of right and wrong. He generally did what suited him, but his heart was true and any transgressions against others were mostly unintentional. Call him an opportunist, an artist, a casual heart-breaker. Only one thing raised his moral ire, and that was Leroy Henson. George delighted in foiling Leroy's schemes. He let the air out of Leroy's grasoline powered jalopy, dyed all of Leroy's clothing pink with some dye he'd acquired before the Industrial Collapse, and spread rumors all up and down the Vertigo of Leroy's unnatural love of women's underclothing and homemade lipstick. Leroy, in retaliation, attacked George upon sight, using whatever was at hand to cause him bodily harm.