Hetty

Hetty is one of the main characters and a P.O.V character in the book "Wilder Girls." Hetty's Tox made her right eye become permanently shut, but occasionally it starts to rip open and Byatt sews it shut with the needle and thread she carries with her. There is one description at the beginning of the book where Hetty flashbacks to when she was a Gun Shift Girl and her eye became so itchy she clawed at it to try to find the source of the itch.

Hetty is kind and cares deeply for everyone at Raxter School for Girls. She's created a close romantic relationship with Reese (Hetty is Queer), and a close bond with Byatt, her best friend. Byatt and Hetty instantly became friends, while friendship with Reese took longer.

She was on Gun Shift first with Byatt, then moved to Boat Shift with Julia and Carson. She is a great shooter and can hit the bulls-eye within one shot.

Tox

 * "My other eye's dead, gone dark in a flare-up. Lid fused shut, something growing underneath." Page 3
 * “My first flare-up blinded my right eye and fuse it shut, and I thought that as all, until something started to grow underneath. A third eyelid, that’s what Byatt though it was. It didn’t hurt, just itched like hell, but I could feel something moving. That’s why I tried to tear it open.” Page 15
 * “‘It’s a heart,’ Reese says. ‘It’s a human heart.’ This one shrunken, shriveled, and mine still beating in my chest. I look away, collapse against Reese, head spinning. She loops her arm around my waist. ‘Doesn’t someone at school have that?’ She says. ‘Sarah,’ I say. ‘Two heartbeats.’ But two hearts instead, and if her body kept hers, why couldn’t mine?” Page 351