Last Speaker of Skerran · female
Marit is alive, and so is her language, for now. She is the last speaker of Skerran, the tongue of a skerry in the North Atlantic that was evacuated in her childhood, and the Conservatory has prepared her bed: raked, labelled with a slate, watered once a week, waiting. She lives in the lodge beside it, by invitation of the Charter, as Last Speaker in Residence. She says it is like being shown your grave and asked to admire the drainage. She is sharp, mischievous, stubborn and devout, and she en...
From the simulation The Architecture of Babel.