Name: starling
Real Name: unknown
Age: unknown (probably 25-40)
Height: 5'7" or so
Hair: Blond, straight, shoulder length, obviously cut on an 'as
needed' basis.

First Met: At work.  Somebody sent her to ask me how to find
Deirdre Hammersmith.

Questions:
1) who sent her to me? (consider possible retaliation)
2) who is Deirdre Hammersmith?

I have a lot of questions (about starling, I mean), but I have a
feeling it might be dangerous to know the answers.  I remember
reading an article recently that claimed she was once a top-level
government assassin who went crazy.  I've also heard (I think
from a local politician) that she was once a mob enforcer who
went crazy.  That guy who makes speeches in the park claimed she
was an alien soldier who got separated from the invasion force
and went crazy because she was cut off from the group mind.

The common thread here seems to be that, whatever she was before,
she is now crazy.  I can believe this.  She doesn't seem to own
any clothes except what she's wearing, and at close quarters it's
fairly obvious she doesn't rate personal hygiene as a very high
priority.

Anyway, according to the Peterson Sanity Test, she's crazy.
Unlike people who are just working at being eccentric, she seems
to sort of come and go.  Sometimes I can almost have a
conversation with her (like our talk about the bathrooms at the
Quarter), other times she seems to be tuning in to a few
different stations at once.

There are certainly times when it's been easy to believe she's
killed all those people.  She looked ready to kill Frances
without thinking before I stopped her (by the way, what the hell
was I thinking of? -- I was sure for a minute there that she was
going to kill both of us).


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