She knows the human heart
And how to read the stars
Now everything's about to fall apart
-- Garbage, The Trick Is To Keep Breathing
Orinda was a character in Jim Henley's Amberway II: Years Have Passed in Amber PBeM. She is the daughter of Flora, raised on Shadow Earth in eighteenth-century France. She was a student of Dworkin's in the years before Patternfall and is known to be a Trump artist, a fortuneteller, a politician, and a diplomat. After the war and the murder of King Random, she swore fealty to Martin, rightful King of Amber, and helped him defeat the Regent, Gerard, and his false Queen, Vialle. Afterward, she sought to hold Martin's fragile kingship together against the threat of Gerard's surviving sons and the redheads.
Jane Seymour is Orinda