Haze Borden

A main character in the series Black Dogs.

Appearance
She is a blond girl with long hair. Her casual outfit consists of a pink T-shirt that has a small black puppy was printed on her shirt with “Good Boy” just below it in teal text and a running short. When she first interacts with others people about her father's campaign her hair was tied back "unnaturally" while wearing a formal dress for the occasion.

About Haze in "Black Dogs"
She's the daughter of the mayor of the town that the series takes place in. The daughter of Max Borden ( a.k.a Governor of Nebraska). She helping her father in a political campaign. She seem to be interest in John Matthews at their first interaction in the manor hall. Although John was little bit confused and acting uncertain, she still try to pressure him into voting for her father, saying that the environment bill will be something that everyone can benefit form. At the end of their conversation, she also gave away the fact that she and her campaign crew will stay here for 3 days to John before walk to other people. Later on in the book ( story if you watch SSTWL), John spotted through the Haze was burring a black canister with a shovel outside of the manor. When she noticed John was waving to her, she did not response, instead she walk away from him. The next day, she met John and started to ask him about the bill S.788. And to her surprise, John actually read and understand about the bill. John was talking her in the hallway and she ask John to give her the clock he was holding which he agree to do it. She also let him know her room and what he was thinking. She admitted to John that she is study about paranormal activities (ghost detective). Suddenly she walk up to John and whispered to him:" You'll rotten here, you can be conscious without breaking it" before take his hand to write something and slam it against the wall, doing a weird dance. She said to him that she want to made it up for the whole incident that she acted weirdly in front John Matthews, hurt him in the process and offered him to spend time after work in her room.

A while later John spotted Haze, he rushed Sylvia (His cousin/ co-worker) to elevator and make excuse to be alone instead of hang out with other employees after work. He was invited to Haze Borden's room and chatting with her while waiting for a ghost to appear. Then, the blonde girl(Haze) happily asked him to draw a dragon eating a lion tattoo on her hand. During their conversation, she revealed to him how she lied to other people about she had leukemia in hope to attract attention. She become obsessed to other's notice, due to the fact that when she was a kid, everyone she met was so afraid of her because of her status as a governor's daughter. She was genuinely sad about what she lied to people in the past, although John didn't get upset about it, she still feel a sense of guilty, which is also shown later on when they was escaping from the Styx Hound Dog. Haze told him that she like him due to he didn't try to avoid like everyone else did. She also draw a jellyfish tattoo for John when they were her room. She soon realize that John was a "pattern" before left him to be alone in her room. From John perspective, Haze's room was filled with numerous notes hanging on walls link with strings, the context of these notes state about a pattern, linking event to event, situation and how to solve the cycle is happening in the manor.

The first turning point of the story is when the day repeat like yesterday, although the main protagonist, John Matthews was oblivious to it, Haze seem to be the only who noticed how everything was in a loop, through her behavior and action became quicker and more aggressive. This was clearly shown when she ask him if he remember yesterday and at her room, Haze said different compare to the last loop while John was still repeating the same dialogue despite different conversation's context create by Haze. To a point that Haze acknowledge this "pattern" by yelling "shut up" to him when response and told him that she was talking to a tape recorder.

By the third time, she staring to get more upset, she angrily walk to John repeat the same thing as she usually in the hallway. She was swearing to him, kiss his face with force in desperation to woke him up from trapping in the pattern. To her relief, he finally realized that he have already met on yesterday. She stated that his name was Ell Dahmer. Although John Matthews was panicked, afraid that he may accidental break a pattern which can lead to all the minions of the Black Hound dog to kill them, she told him to repeat what he was doing while she plan their way out of here.

A while later, she realized that John had break a pattern so she use a shovel hack Sylvia to pieces before grabbing his hand to get the black canister that contain film which also the key to the Black Hound weakness and to solve every horrible, unnatural that was happening in the manor. During their escape from the Black Hound, she realized that that she have been stuck in the "pattern" for two years, she was uncertain whether they have manage to break the pattern completely or not because she remember all the details of how everything play out when they were running to the manor's basement. Realize that they couldn't out run the Black Hound, she told John that they should split up in the case the dog choose one of them to chase, to gave the escaper more time to reach their destination. This time the dog chose her, she quickly make a sincere apology to John about everything before threw the black canister to him and sacrifice herself.