Miriam Achterberg

Master Wickerwright and Keeper of the Fringe · Female

Miriam is the most physically substantial person in any room she enters — not merely in body, which is broad and strong, with the forearms of someone who has been bending cane and willow for thirty years, but in the quality of her attention, which is dense and gravitational. She has a round, ruddy face with laugh lines deep enough to cast shadow and grey hair worn in a thick braid that she pins up for work and lets fall in the evening. Her hands are remarkable: calloused at the fingertips, stain...

From the simulation The Panopticon of Good Taste.