Hester Shaw is a fictional character from Philip Reeve's Mortal Engines Quartet.
Hester: Hester has terrible facial scarring, due to being attacked by Thaddeus Valentine when she was a child, an assault that also killed her parents. Although she sometimes shows to be kind hearted when she is not looking in the mirror.
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