Lena Molloy
26, Head Mistress of the Kourtezan Guild,
Conzec. Lena Molloy is currently the single most celebrated kourtezan in
all The Quadrant. Her tantalizing face and stunning body appear in Sysprog
advertisements and vid promotions throughout Krania and the Inner Boardz,
and her Virtual Entertainment "Escort Adventures" outsell those
of all other Kourtezans combined, despite their exorbitant cost. On Conzec
Board, for parents to present a teenage son with a Virtual Lena experience
at his "coming of age," is a gift sure to be the envy of all his
friends.
A graduate and member of the Kourtezan Guild,
where she was schooled by her mother, Meerna Molloy, who in her youth was
a kourtezan of unsurpassed beauty and accomplishment, Lena is at the absolute
height of her powers. With many lovers in high places (including the current
Director Bard Rammel, young Roland Rask, and Axon Kronstadt himself) Lena,
despite her relative youth, is a woman who knows how the game of power is
played in The Quadrant.
Easily employing her beauty, charm and wit
to melt the hearts of most men she encounters, her keen intelligence has
gained her admittance to the highest circles. Though she continues to rely
on the guidance of Meerna for many things, Lena has lately become far more
independent and self-contained, resisting her mother's incessant attempts
to control her destiny.
Still, there is one thing that Lena and Meerna
absolutely agree upon: that Lena must someday inherit her mother's place
on The Nine. For as both Lena and her mother well know, only here can a
woman wield power as a man of the Quadrant does--from strength of will,
rather than from whatever transitory physical charms she may possess.
The identity of Lena's father has always remained
a mystery to her, and if Meerna actually knows, she has staunchly refused
to reveal the secret to her daughter. If there is a chink in Lena's otherwise
tough emotional armor it is this: she longs beyond all else to know if her
father still lives, and who in all The Quadrant he might be.