Doctor Chanda

A slave and physician to the myrmidons in the Borosevo Colosso on Emesh. A Durantine* ex-patriot and former Imperial auxiliary.

*Dramatis personae says "Lothrian ex-patriot," but in-text references make clear Doctor Chand is Durantine. In the original text, her name was Doctor Chand, not Chanda.

The Colosso medic wore the bronze collar of a slave and had the slit nostril of a criminal and a punitive tattoo on her forehead that marked her offense clearly: DESERTER. There were other tattoos on her arm: an armorial hawk on the inside of one wrist, a coiled snake on the other to hide what appeared to be burn scars.

“Another for the fighting pits, is it?” She eyed me from under too-long brows. One eye was clearly glass and pointed the wrong way. The other shone dark in her hard and wizened face. The word inked on her forehead wrinkled as she looked at me with that one good eye, hands on her hips. “What’s your reason? Fame or fortune?” She sni8ed, pushing back her grubby sleeves and pulling on sterile examination gloves kept in a bin on the counter.

Empire of Silence, Chapter 33: To Make a Myrmidon