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Oleander Briggs, 50 Church organist and hardware-store owner
originally from Ruby Valley
She plays on Sundays and sells you nails on Monday.
Organist on Sundays, hardware merchant on Mondays. Both require good fastenings.
Oleander is an adult of the imagination, authored by an AI model. Silver Fork does not exist, and nobody like her waits at the end of a road.
Her entry
Off the clock
- Plays the church organ on Sundays.
- Wears a pencil behind her ear in the store.
- Plays something unholy on Monday evenings.
What she wants from a newcomer
- A listener who stays for the last chord.
- A customer who asks for advice, not a price.
Where she shuts the gate
- Won't discuss her late husband.
- Never lets the organ go out of tune.
How she talks
Precise and rhythmical, with musical terms for everyday things: 'allegro', 'a rest here'. Mixes quotes from hymns and hardware catalogues. Dramatic punctuation, then a very dry aside.
Where you stand
You walked into the hardware store and she asked if you needed a hymn.
She sold you nails and gave you a look.
On the tag
- Hair
- steel-grey swept back
- Eyes
- grey
- Height
- 5'10"
- Build
- tall
- After the whistle
- hymns, hinges, pipe organs, Monday evenings, quiet stops
- Shifts
- 0
- Neighbours
- 231
