Lima

"Oh my gosh, you’re so pretty!"

Lima is a shadowwalker and one of the main characters throughout the trilogy.

Appearance
Lima has black-brown fur, sometimes just referred to as black. Her "glinting green eyes" are mentioned when Mez and Auriel first meet her. Mez describes the bat as really tiny, and there being mice heftier than her. Lima's voice is high-pitched.

Personality
Lima is a hyper, 'manic-pixie dream bat' with a perky and cheery personality. She is kind, chatty, and does not have very many personal boundaries. She is an optimist, able to add a bit of light to every situation. Lima tends to admire beauty on many occasions, such as when she expresses her desire to share Mez's fur color, or when she wondered whether Banu could decorate her body with sparkling water.

Mez's Magic
Lima lived with her colony, having no familial connections that she can remember. This is normal for bats, for once they're older, their parents fall back into the midst of the colony, leaving their children to forget who they are. This is in part why Lima is eager to leave when Auriel and Mez come for her, as she has no ties to her home cave. When Lima heals Mez after a run-in with owls, she learns from her friends that it's not a normal bat ability and that it must be her shadowwalker power. The bat nearly dies after crossing Agony Canyon, but she and her friends pull through thanks to her magic, though it does exhaust her and leave her recovering for a little bit. Lima joins the expedition under the ziggurat and gets separated like everyone else but finds her friends in time to fish Rumi out of a whirlpool. They make it back to the surface, and later Lima and the other shadowwalkers besides Mez are imprisoned within the ziggurat. After getting free and fleeing the stone structure, Lima stays with Mez and her family for the year instead of with her birth colony.

Gogi's Gambit
Lima is with Mez and Chumba when they arrive at the ziggurat ruins. She is the one who comes up with the idea to float down on monguba seeds to get to the Dismal Bog quicker, consequentially making the team crash into the bog unprepared and scattered. In the final battle, Lima assists Gogi in dropping the fungus wood on the Ant Queen before going to help Mez and Chumba. She also contributes by lending her magic to Auriel. She sits with Gogi, discussing the ant army leaving in the aftermath of the battle and the future.

Rumi's Riddle
Lima doesn't have much prominence. She goes with Mez to help the panther's family, ruins Mez's traditional duel with Mist by interfering to heal Mez and later heals Sky of Rumi's poison. She joins her friends on the ark.

Powers
Lima's powers are centered on healing. By licking wounds, whether her own or others, she can heal them.

Trivia

 * Lima made her own "theme song" Lima the Healing Bat, ferocious- er than a piranha, scarier than a cat! Gogi sings a parody of it to try to summon Lima's aid when Mist steals the bag holding the fungus wood in Gogi's Gambit. Give me the bag back, it doesn’t belong to you, you silly cat
 * Mez compares Lima to Chumba on multiple occasions and sometimes sees her as a surrogate when she's missing her sister.
 * She is referred to as the Healer in the Song of the Five.
 * Lima's name is likely derived from the location Lima, which the author has said to have visited.

Quotes
"Well, we’ve already had the fresh gnat snack, then the appetizer of mosquito eggs. Perhaps an entrée of moonlit figs, and for dessert a mousse of flying termites."

-Lima misunderstanding Rumi when he asks what their course is in Mez's Magic

"Look at me! I’m so amazing! I’ve got feathers growing out of my butt!"

-Lima mocking Sky in Mez's Magic

"Oh my gosh, you’re so ugly-cute. I want to take you home and keep you!"

-Lima to the boto in Gogi's Gambit