Shirin is a woman who signs for Atterley during his lectures. She is sphinx-like and inscrutable with a strangely marked face due to her diseases. She has intense eyes and is tall and athletically built. Shirin is in her early thirties and becomes B after Charles Atterley is assassinated. She trains Jared in the park with the use of a bricolage. Jared believes Shirin was killed in the bombing of the Schauspielhaus Wahnfried, but she managed to escape and hide at Michael's chalet twenty kilometers west of Radenau.