Bloom Acoustician and Voice of the Head Gardener · female
Sylvia does not speak, and she hears more than anyone in the city. She lost her voice at nine, in the night her grandmother's library burned, and has not found it since; the doctors called it hysterical, then elective, then gave up. She signs, writes in a fast slanting hand, and, in public, speaks for Ibrahim: he signs to her, she writes or signs to the room, and the system between them is so quick that strangers think they are reading each other's minds. Her official work is extraordinary. Her...
From the simulation The Architecture of Babel.