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The Doclopedia #2
Other Places: Xerilka
Xerilka is the female proprietor of “The Last Saloon”, a rough and tough roadhouse on the edge of the Terran Territory of Mars. It is, in fact, the last saloon you’ll encounter unless you travel all the way around the planet to the other side of the Terran Territories, at which point you’ll encounter “Bradbury’s”.
Tall, statuesque and totally beautiful, Xerilka looks as out of place in her saloon as a whore in church. She appears not to notice this incongruity and strolls among her clientele as tho she is just “one of the gang”. She is very well liked by all of them.
Xerilka’s past, or part of it, is a mystery. From birth to age 15, it is a matter of record that Xerilka Kastonikis lived on a farm in Greece with her parents and several siblings. By all accounts, her life was quite normal.
However, 5 months after her 15th birthday, Xerilka appears to have dropped off the face of the Earth (and Luna, Mars, Mercury, the various L-Colonies and the Outer Colonies, too) and did not reappear until exactly 20 years later, to the day. She never speaks about her “Lost Years” and will politely deflect any questions in that area.
As far as the Terran authorities can tell, Xerilka is not involved in any illegal endeavors, although the same cannot be said of all her regular customers. There is some question about her having regular contact with both the Martians and the DeHaJo, but nobody has caught her at it yet.
Xerilka is not married, has no lover that anyone knows about and has no close friends apart from her bartenders, Max, YingYing and Darcy, and her Barsoomian Terrier, Edgar.
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