Owen Bell

Owen is the father of September and married to Susan Jane.

Biography
September does not wave goodbye to him as she flies off to Fairyland for the first time.

He was first mentioned in book 1, where it is said multiple times that he was in the war in Europe.

His shadow later appeared in book 2 as the Alleyman, a Lutin- an invisible being with a visible red hat with two long feathers- who resided in Fairyland-Below and worked for Halloween, who had dragged him in from the human world into Fairyland-Below through a hole in the Gingerfog River. There he was given the Woeful Wimble, the Sundering Siphon and a Fairy truck, which he used to cut through the ceiling of the Fairyland-Below into Fairyland, and suck down a shadow. As a result, he was greatly feared by all, who knew that if he chose them, there would be no escape. September first ran into the Alleyman when he arrived in Tain just before the Revel. Aubergine heard him as he was taking shadows, saying that he was crying while he was doing so, revealing that the Alleyman was doing such things possibly against his will.

Later, September came across him again, when he came for the shadow of the Onion Man, which caused September to get very angry with him and demand that he leave the Onion Man alone. Surprisingly, he did, leaving without a single shadow.

His identity was finally revealed when he came for the shadow of Prince Myrrh and was attacked by three of the Winds (Silver, Black, and Red). He was shot in the shoulder by the Red Wind and as he lay there, September ripped off his hat in a fit of rage, which made his visible again, showing that he was really the shadow of her own father, stolen himself by Halloween.

September then brought the shadow back to the human world with her, and reunited him with Owen's physical self, who had returned home from Europe upon injuring his leg.