The Correspondent

Sybil is the main character of the narrative and one of its main narrative voices. At the beginning of the narrative, she is a 73-year-old woman with declining eyes. Adopted as a young child by the Stone family, she would later become the sister of Felix when he, too, was adopted by her parents. After grudgingly participating in the Kindred Project, she finds out that her biological parents were a Scottish woman named Louisa and a Crow man named Charles Thorne. She has a biological sister named Hattie and half-siblings in Scotland with whom she reconnects after matching with Hattie through the Kindred Project. Sybil is the mother of Bruce, Gilbert, and Fiona, as well as the grandmother of Charles, Frances, and Bruce’s unnamed children. Sybil holds herself responsible for Gilbert’s death, as the accident that killed him happened under her watch. She was once married to Daan Van Antwerp, but after Gilbert’s death, their marriage deteriorated, and they eventually divorced. Though she gets along with Bruce, Sybil has had a contentious relationship with Fiona that often leaves them at odds with each other.

Over the course of her life, Sybil had a longstanding career in law and worked closely with Guy Donnelly, a circuit court judge in Maryland.