My name is Catriona Bebhinn and I am known to my family and friends in Turkey as Hanimefendi Zaynab Yasmine bint Hasan. I am the daughter of an Irish merchant who found it necessary to marry me to God. Enroute to the abbey in Italy I was being sent to the ship was attacked by Moorish Pirates who sent the woman on board as tribute to the Sultan. I was lucky and was allowed to be adopted by a high official in the court instead of being sent to the Harem. (The adoption of daughters is one way for a Muslim man to ensure his place in paradise.) I found the freedom and treatment I received in Turkey was much more agreeable that that of my Irish family and decided not to try to return and instead try to assimilate in to the new culture. I am living as a renegade Muslim in Istanbul with my new family in about the year 1610. I spend my days going to the Bazaars, visiting the palace and learning to run a proper household.