Mandy

Mandy (d. July 22nd, 2002) was a college student of Boston College. She makes an appearance in the book Map of Bones.

She was accompanying her friends Jason, Brenda, and Karl on a backpacking tour in Europe. She is close to Jason more than the other two. Both were on summer holiday from Boston College, backpacking through Germany and Austria.

She had been raised Roman Catholic and waited for a midnight mass. They were waiting on for the mass attended by the Archbishop of Cologne for the Feat of the Three Kings. She did not want to miss it. She had dragged Brenda and Karl along, as they were friends. Brenda was Mandy's best friend since high school.

During mass, she partook in Communion. This would be her last. A group of military personnel in monks clothing marched in, shooting the priest and told everyone to stay. They lifted two discs and had broken the encasing to the sarcophagus. Mandy's hand began to tremble in his, vibrating like a speaker's tweeter. Tears ran down her face, turning bloody as he watched. She did not breathe. Her body then jerked and stiffened, knocking his hand free, but not before he felt the bite of an electrical shock arc from her fingertips to his. He stood up, too horrified to sit. A thin trail of smoke rose from Mandy's open mouth. Her eyes were rolled back to white, but already they were smoldering black at the corners.

She died.

Appearances
Map of Bones