Cali's Mom

First mentioned in Book 1, she doesn’t actually make an appearance until Book 2: ch 2 when she calls Cali on her cell phone weeks after she has been on holiday with Lola. She is said to be ill with an unknown condition that has left her with a collapsed lung and requires a transplant.

(2-ch 5) It’s confirmed that she has cystic fibrosis then cancer which was caught early and is now in remission. States Xavier is a fancy name and that he’s very caring.

(2-ch 6) Says he looks like a model and that Cali is gorgeous but a handful and very strange.

States her Fae magic is in growing things

BOOK 7
In Book 7, she flatlines, but Cali manages to save her with the moon buttercup

(7-ch 33) Revealed her favorite dish is spaghetti; she meets Jay during their dinner

(7-ch 48) She tells Cali that she first became aware of her power over nature when she was 13 years old; she explains that she found out what her powers were when she sneezed in front of a boy she liked and a nearby daisy turned into a bush. She explains that Cali’s energy surges are like her grandfather Innes who fought in the Fae war but never returned.

(7-ch 55) MIB agents ask Orla what her most recent illness was about - and tells them it’s recorded as systemic organ failure.

(7-ch 76) Orla finds out Artemis is her daughter; she tells the group that 23 years ago she had a daughter but was told it was stillborn. Her mother, Hera, was not there for the childbirth and she never saw the baby herself.

(7-ch 86) Orla reveals that her first marriage was to Kadmos, the son of an influential Dark Fae noble family. Her grandfather believed that the way to resolve the Light vs Dark Fae conflict was with a union between the enemies. She tried to rebel against the arrangement, but her suitor was actually really kind, witty, charming, and handsome. She fell in love and it appeared that he was in love with her too. So, they were bound to each other for life as lovers. She got pregnant, but Kadmos was sent to fight in the war and he died before she gave birth; which she was told was stillborn. She ran away from the grief into the human world without knowing she left a daughter behind.

(7-ch 123) Orla tells Artemis and Cali the Fae vase with the Kollector’s seal that they just captured Tony’s ghost in would look nice next to the set of salt shakers Tom’s grandparents gave them for their wedding.

BOOK 8
8-ch 13 Orla mentions the TV program they are watching is one of Tom’s favorite shows. Artemis describes it as an obstacle course and Cali notices her father is interested in the possibility of having a ninja warrior prodigy in his home.

8-ch 16 Cali notes as she’s sneaking out of the house that she can hear her dad’s snores and wondered how her mom is able to sleep through the noise

8-ch 122 When Tom is bitten by the Rouge, Orla uses her power of plants to fight.

BOOK 9
9-ch 104 Orla tells Artemis and Cali that Kadmos used to talk to her about a sphere that could end the fighting and that he should be the one to find it as he could be the only one to use it’s power safely

BOOK 10
10-ch 54 Greyson’s first glimpse of Orla (in real life) he notices looks a lot like Cali and had the same confident swagger he associates with Artemis

10-ch 62 Orla comes to save Artemis from Big Mac by using seaweed to bind her

10-ch 76 Orla tells Artemis that the Wrenthorns come from a long line of warriors. She asks Artemis to make a Fae promise not to tell Cali or Tom that she believes that Kadmos is still alive

10-ch 79 Orla tells Artemis that Cali used to build little fairy houses underneath a tree when she was a little girl and that this tree is connected through to the Fae world. When she got sick she lost her ability to control all her Fae powers - speaking to trees included. She tells Big Mac that as long as Cali and Artemis are alive, her kids can be annoying as they want

10-ch 97 Cali states that Orla had always been so fascinated by sitcoms when she was growing up and remembers an I Love Lucy episode where they made grape juice by stomping barefoot in a grape filled barrel

10-ch 105 Orla makes a garment of woven leaves and vines for Rishika to wear

BOOK 11
11-ch 16 Greyson states he’s nearly a foot taller than Orla

11-ch 19 Cali asks Orla if Kadmos is really alive and states that she shakes her head like when she’d asked her if she’d smoked pot in college or when she asked for help on her family tree report in fourth grade. Cali states Orla has a “This Fight Is Giving Me A Headache” look that she used in her middle school days when she was begging her to buy her a padded bra

11-ch 52 Orla admits to Cali that she will always love Kadmos; but she is in love with Tom

11-ch 57 Cali states that Orla had always given Lola and her the weirdest compliments on their appearance such as ‘pretty as a picture’, ‘adorable’, and ‘cute as a button’

BOOK 12
12-ch 76 Cali states that Tom and Orla loved road trips and used to go for long drives to see new states every summer. That Tom kept an atlas in the car that they would mark with check marks once they visited someplace