Meggie is Mortimer's and Resa's daughter. She is very independent and possesses some of her father's ability for storytelling, which allows her words to change the outcome of the story. Though she begins the novel deeply in love with Farid, she blames him when the White Women take her father away, and throughout the course of the novel, comes to care deeply for Doria, and stays with him when the Adderhead is defeated. Meggie also blames her mother Resa for her father's disappearance, and this causes a deep rift between the two that lasts well beyond her father's return. Meggie suffers from being unable to help her father throughout much of the novel. Earlier in her life, she had been separated from Resa, which caused her to bond much more strongly to Mortimer. She was once able to help him greatly against the Adderhead, but finds herself constantly unable to do anything for him throughout the present conflict. Nonetheless, she writes down Fenoglio's songs of the Bluejay and reads them as loudly as she can, in order to aid Mortimer as he is a prisoner in the Castle in the Lake. She also makes herself useful to the Black Prince, Fenoglio, and the band of robbers in many ways throughout the book. Unlike her mother, she was not interested in leaving the world of Inkheart until her father was placed in grave danger.
