Pratima: icon, idol, statue. beautiful, intelligent, and a chain-smoker, she is often found painting or taking photographs with a cigarette between her fingers. but is very careful not to take a smoke when exploring the forests of the amazons near the convent. she was born into a wealthy family, but lost her mother at childbirth. she, like her mother, is extraordinarily beautiful, which is an advantage in some ways, and a burden in many more. she grew up with little friends, and studied abroad so as to escape the taunts from the other girls in her village(just like her mother). she met mother katherina, head nun of coleção das lâmpadas (collection of lamps) convent, when getting lost in the amzons of brazil, and took up a correspondence through letters with her.