Editing Kataleya (section)

==Character==

Kataleya is the deputy tutor at Sometria and plays a smaller but revealing role within the school’s system of discipline. She is strict, impatient and entirely comfortable enforcing the rules placed upon the novices. Her approach is not subtle: she expects instant obedience and uses punishment as a routine part of instruction.

Unlike Maricella, who is more controlled and intellectually deliberate, Kataleya seems to take a more direct and physical pleasure in exercising authority. During the exercise period, she randomly strikes the novices as they pass, apparently enjoying the activity and even taking care to choose targets that cause additional humiliation. The other children accept this behaviour as normal, suggesting that Kataleya is an ordinary product of Sometria’s institutional culture rather than an exceptional monster.

She is also conscious of rank and protocol. When Meg speaks informally, Kataleya immediately corrects her and insists upon being addressed properly. At the same time, she is not especially important within the hierarchy. She reports to Maricella, follows the established routine and seems eager to demonstrate that she is a proper tutor. Her authority is therefore borrowed from the system she serves.

Kataleya is best understood as a disciplinarian shaped by Sometria: practical, rigid and lacking sympathy for those who fail to conform. She does not appear driven by personal hatred of Meg. Instead, she regards Meg as another disobedient pupil who must be corrected, which makes her behaviour feel all the more routine and institutional.


A bit lazy and impatient. She is also a little sadistic, enjoys hitting the novices during the exercise period whether they deserve it or not, but not excessively.