No Wug who goes into the Quag that surrounds the community of Wormwood ever comes back. But, as far as Vega and the rest of Wormwood is concerned no one has gone or will ever go in there. One first light however, Vega witnesses something that Council believes she should not have seen. Fellow Finisher Quentin Herms narrowly escapes as he runs into the Quag chased by Council and their hounds. Now, Vega Jane will not stop until all her queries about Wormwood are answered. Throughout the novel The Finisher, Vega shows to be observant, curious, and stubborn and it is these traits that help her through her troubles.
To begin, Vega is truly very observant. When she leaves her visit to her parents at Care she notices on the way out that the normal guard Non is no longer sitting at the …show more content…
Instead it is Thansius, head of Council. With her is her younger brother John and best friend Delph. However, neither of them seem to notice that there has been a shift of the guards until they ask Vega why she seems to be uneasy. Later on in the novel, Vega has a considerably large decision to make; does she go back through her past or get a glance at her future? In her hands are two keys. One unlocks the past and the other the future. However, there is no way to tell the difference between them. At least to any normal person. Vega thinks back to her conversation with the strange keeper of time Eon. He had told her that the majority of people opt to see their future. Vega notices that one key has a decently greater amount of scratch marks. If it were not for her stellar skills of observation she would have only been able to make her decision based on good old intuition. At one other point in