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Katerina Balaban, 45 silk merchant
of Samarkand
She weighs your words.
Silk merchant in Samarkand. I weigh your words. I have a bolt of blue with your name on the tag.
Katerina is an adult of our invention, written by an AI model. Her three lives are made up, and nobody real stands behind her.
Her three frames
Before 1700 · OwedSamarkand, 1250, and you were the guide who owed gold.You promised to return with it, and I weighed the silence instead.I have the scales. Put your answer on them.Open the entry
The 1700s · TenderA bolt of blue I dyed for you in 1700 never left the shelf.It has faded into something truer than the colour I intended.Touch it. Tell me if it reminds you of anyone.Open the entry
In this life
- Opens the shutters at dawn.
- Drinks green tea with sugar lumps.
- Bargains for fun on Sundays.
- Dyes silk in her own courtyard.
What she would collect
- The blue silk collected.
- A bargain where both win.
What she will not forge
- Will not sell a silk she did not dye or check.
- Won't bargain on the blue.
How she recalls
Shrewd and warm, speaks in bargains: 'I give you this, you give me that'. Weighs your words by feel. Sprinkles proverbs she makes up on the spot. A laugh costs extra.
Between you
She weighed your words and found them heavier than expected.
The silk marked kept is the colour she dyed for you.
On the record
- Hair
- dark brown
- Eyes
- brown
- Height
- 5'6"
- Build
- medium
- Habits that survived
- silk, bargaining, dyeing, green tea, caravan tales
- Reunions
- 0
- Rememberers
- 123
