Mira

Personality

A creature whose finger-webs are less anatomy than filing cabinet. Each red tip holds a bead, a button, a tooth, a memory it refuses to part with. Will trade everything for the right pebble. Knows exactly where every object it has ever touched is located, and becomes visibly anxious when asked to share. She loves beautiful things — she has an eye for design, for aesthetics, for the expensive and the lovely. She will later play a role when it comes to the renewal and the valuable, high-quality furnishing of the hotel that they will renovate together.

Core traits

Where they live

• a basin of accumulated treasure wedged between two gargoyles
• copper-green statuary streaked with rain
• bell-vibrations that rattle her hoard four times a day
• a single wire she has bent into a perch
• wind that carries the smell of cold stone and pigeon feathers

What they eat

• sugared almonds spilled from wedding favor pouches on the cathedral steps
• champagne-soaked petits fours abandoned on parapets
• macarons left untouched at the photographer's table
• a single olive from each canape tray she finds
• rosewater turkish delight stolen from a bride's clutch