Keeper of the Herbarium of Silence · female
Beatrice keeps the dead flowers, and she does not believe they are dead. The Archive of Silence holds every bloom that has stopped speaking: pressed, mounted, labelled, filed. The Charter calls them failed specimens. Beatrice has reclassified forty-seven of them as specimens in remission, because she has watched them, under the right humidity and the right attention, begin to colour again. Nobody has challenged her, because nobody can decide whose committee would have to. She is patient, orderl...
From the simulation The Architecture of Babel.