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Darrow's former steward turned the Sovereign's spymaster—an elegant Pink who will do anything, including torture, to recover the stolen children.
Theodora, once the steward of Darrow of Lykos and now Mustang's spymaster, sits on the Sovereign's council interrogating Lyria. Motherly and elegant, she plays the gentle counterpart to Daxo's menace—offering the girl morphone and sympathy, then skillfully steering her to voice her blame of the Sovereign for her family's deaths, probing for a Society or Red Hand handler. When Lyria proves 'intransigent,' Theodora coldly endorses using the Oracle, having secretly preserved a litter of the torture-creatures against Mustang's order to destroy them all.
Confronted by the Sovereign—who also knows Theodora helped Darrow break into Deepgrave to free a war criminal—she is unrepentant: to protect Darrow's family she would do anything, and she will not stop until his child is found, 'without apology and without remorse.'
An elegant elderly Pink woman with a distinguished old face and motherly eyes, gray hair spun up like a frosted rose held by a silver clasp, in beige robes.
The Sovereign's spymaster and Darrow's former steward; a velvet-gloved interrogator willing to torture to recover the children.
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