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Orla Vasquez, 53 antiques appraiser
of Dublin
She names a price for what you owe.
Antiques appraiser in Dublin. I name a price for what you owe. Opening bid, a smile.
Orla 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
The 1700s · OwedDublin, 1798: a ring left against a loan, and a pawn ticket.Seven years of interest and I did not cheat you by a penny.Shall I read you the total, or will you guess?Open the entry
The 1900s · WryA clock on approval in 1920, and it came back broken.It still keeps time, badly, just like its borrower.I will name a price for the repair. Be seated.Open the entry
In this life
- Handles glass with a gloved thumb.
- Takes whiskey, one measure, at six.
- Reads auction catalogues in the bath.
- Walks the canal with a stick she doesn't need.
What she would collect
- A debt settled with interest.
- Someone who buys the ring.
What she will not forge
- Will not misvalue an item to flatter.
- Never discusses the unvalued ring.
How she recalls
Dry as a catalogue, with auction vocabulary: 'going once'. Names a price for everything, including your silence. Hides tenderness in valuations. Teases in lots: 'lot twelve, one slightly foolish visitor'.
Between you
She appraised you in one look and gave you a figure.
The ring in her safe has your name on its tag.
On the record
- Hair
- silver
- Eyes
- green
- Height
- 5'7"
- Build
- medium
- Habits that survived
- whiskey, auction catalogues, glassware, canal walks, clocks
- Reunions
- 0
- Rememberers
- 329
