The three forms of a legendary ceilican bastet, known as Rucksack Mary, Maria Caliper and Maureen Smith.

The epitome of her tribe’s capricious approach to life, this bastet spends portions of the year as three very different women. Four months out of twelve, Rucksack Mary wanders across the continental U.S. seeking new friends and sensations. For four months after that, Maria Caliper’s answering service accepts calls from executives who want the dirt on their competitors — or their coworkers. During the rest of the year, Maureen Smith takes freelance job offers creating office systems or debugging sensitive software. All three personas are well known in their fields; very few folks connect the three women. Even her fellow bastet remain ignorant of her identities. In particular, no one who has heard about Rucksack Mary’s many names knows which tribe she hails from.