Saida

Saida is a young peasant girl who befriends Nona Grey in Giljohn's cage.

Appearance
Saida is a very large and muscular girl for her age, due to her Gerant blood. She has long pale hair.

Personality
For such a large girl, she's very timid and clumsy. She hates violence, and would much prefer to heal people than hurt them.

Red Sister
Saida's poverty stricken parents sell their eight-year-old Gerant daughter to Giljohn the child-taker for five pennies. In the cage, Saida immediately befriends Nona, and the two girls form a strong bond. They eventually arrive in Verity, where Giljohn sell both Nona and Saida to Partnis Reeve, the owner of the Caltess Fight-Hall. The children live for a time in the attic and are tasked with doing chores around the Fight-Hall. One day, Saida is cleaning the room of Raymel Tacsis, a famed ring-fighter of noble blood. When she accidentally breaks a vase, the giant Gerant become enraged and attacks her. Nona hears the brawl, she rushes to the room. She warns Raymel to put Saida down, but he ignores her. So Nona attacks him, climbing the huge man and slitting his throat with her Flaw-Blades.

The two young girls are taken to Harriton Prison, and condemned to death. Saida is taken to the gallows first. As she's about to be executed, she sees the arrival of Abbess Glass and her hopes rise that she'll receive a last minute reprieve. Nevertheless, she hangs anyway, while it's Nona who the Abbess saves. The death of her friend Saida goes on to haunt Nona.