Emily Winslow

Emily Winslow is a fictional character from the Hollow Kingdom Trilogy. She appears in all three novels and acts as one of the protagonists of the second book, Close Kin.

In Close Kin, Emily is grown up.

Physical description
Emily stroked her straight brown hair. Kate calls her Em, Malak calls her M.

The Hollow Kingdom
When Kate finds out that her younger sister, Emily, has been kidnapped, she believes Marak did it and offers to marry him in exchange for her sister's safe return. Marak reveals that he did not take Emily, but agrees to rescue her. Kate and Emily's guardian, Hugh Roberts, is the one who took her as part of his scheme to steal their inheritance. Kate and Marak decide where Emily should live. Kate wants Emily to lives much of a human life as possible. Marak says, “I’ll bring you into my kingdom under two conditions. First, you do have to marry a goblin when you’re old enough. But you can marry any goblin you like; I’ll leave you the choice. And second, if you come, no changing your mind later. You won’t be allowed to leave.”

Emily becomes a page, one of about a hundred likely children from the high families. They lived on the pages’ floor, had lessons from a variety of masters, and took turns serving at court. In spite of her elf blood, she's hopeless at magic. As the two nongoblin children among the pages, she and Seylin were inseparable. Emily admired Seylin. He still divided his time between being a cat and being a boy, in part because Emily was more impressed by his exploits when he performed them as a cat.

Relationships
Seylin

When Kate and Emily move into the goblin kingdom, Emily and Seylin become close friends. She defends him from the teasing of the other children and is able to convince him to get into trouble with her. By the time they are adults in Close Kin, Seylin is in love with her and tries to propose. She misunderstands his intentions and they get into an argument, which leads to him wanting to leave the kingdom to find who he believes are his real people, the elves. After he leaves, Emily discovers what happened and wants to go after him. Marak refuses to let her follow him, but does agree to allow her to leave the kingdom with the excuse of finding her human nature.

Eventully Seylin and Emily reunite and plan to marry, but before they can leave the camp, Willow hits Seylin with a stick, which provokes the goblins spying on them to come out. They put Thorn, Willow, and Rowan to sleep while they steal Sable and Irina. Once back in the goblin kingdom, Marak marries Emily and Seylin and makes Seylin Catspaw's tutor.

During their marriage, Seylin and Emily have eight children. Two of them appear or are mentioned in the series: Celia, who marries Tatto, and Dentwood, who marries Miranda's younger sister, Charlotte