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xxxxxA short and slender middle-aged woman. She has long straight black hair liberally shot through with silver, light brown skin, and dark brown eyes in an angular face. She is Hazara, but most Americans have difficulty placing her ethnicity and tend to guess she is Southeast Asian or Native American. She speaks English with a subtle Persian accent that most Americans also cannot place.
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xxxxxNone, except maybe among Prometheans who have been in the same labs she was. She was quiet and reserved and tried to make things easier for her labmates in subtle, steady ways. After escaping from Blackburn, she only stayed in New York for a short while before leaving. No one heard from her since until her recent return.
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xxxxxShe can sense and manipulate the molecular properties and behavior of water. She cannot levitate water or otherwise make it defy the laws of physics, but can magnify or accelerate natural processes in ways that look like very much like they do. The properties she can affect include phase state, density, hydrodynamic stability, friction, surface tension, and other intermolecular forces.
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xxxxxAnahita has led an extremely disrupted life, travelled much and relied on others little despite her highly communal philosophy, and so has picked up a wide variety of skills. Most of these are quite commonplace, and though she is generally competent she has honed few of them to mastery. Of those that she has honed, probably the most significant is managing men with large egos in such a way that they do not think they are being managed.
She is highly experienced in political organizing, which includes coordinating often very unorganized people as well as public speaking, logistics, operational security, and making the most of limited budgets. She has eclectic medical skills, primarily in first aid, herbal medicine, and midwifery. She is an excellent gardener, mainly of vegetables and herbs, although she has dabbled in growing crops and ornamental plants. She knows how to hunt well enough to supplement impoverished diets but not to subsist, and is a decent shot with longarms and bows. She is an excellent swimmer.
Though she never received any formal education, she is an avid reader in history, political and economic philosophy, sociology, religion, and hydrology. Dari is her first language, but not having spoken it since early childhood she is very rusty and far more fluent in English. She can speak Mandarin and Spanish reasonably well, and just enough badly accented and ungrammatical Arabic, Russian, and French for basic communication.
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