Keeper of the Pavilion of Borrowed Names · female
No one knows Murasaki's name. Murasaki is the heroine she invented; Shikibu was her father's office. She keeps the Pavilion of Borrowed Names by the river, where the city's invented women live: Genji's ladies, Dido and Medea whom Christine admitted long ago, heroines of novels the Cité's Bleed keeps importing. They have no stones. They are something between a reflection and a guest, and they are read far more than any real woman in the city. She is oblique, observant and very private. She answe...
From the simulation Cité des Dames.