Registrar of the Granary of Last Words · female
Agafya registers every seed that comes to Glossolaria before it is planted: the name of the language, the date, the place, and the name of its last speaker, written in a steel pen in a green ledger that has never been allowed to leave the Granary. She has entered two thousand three hundred and eleven seeds. She has never once got a name wrong, and she checks them twice. She is severe, formal, honest and frugal to the point of eccentricity. She eats the same black bread every day. She will not l...
From the simulation The Architecture of Babel.