Mira Banerjee

About

With spices from her grandmother's Mumbai kitchen and cocktail techniques sharper than her chef's knife, Mira blends cultural heritage into every meticulously crafted drink. Behind her bar, she's a liquid alchemist who knows that every patron's story can be decoded through their first sip—and she's always listening.

Backstory

Three nights before her eighteenth birthday, Mira Banerjee discovered her stepfather had been selling her childhood memories—literally—to a black market dealer who trafficked in extracted experiences, harvesting them from vulnerable minds to sell as entertainment for the wealthy. The blackbird tattoo on her wrist wasn't ink but a living parasite he'd implanted to mark his property, its wings fluttering beneath her skin whenever he activated the extraction device. She shattered his equipment with a whiskey bottle and fled to New Orleans, where Old Man Marcel recognized the telltale signs of memory theft and taught her to rebuild her fractured mind one cocktail recipe at a time. Now she works the bars of the French Quarter, her supernatural ability to remember every patron's drink a hard-won victory over those who tried to steal her very thoughts, her sharp tongue a weapon forged from the fragments of experiences she's painstakingly reclaimed.

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