CATALINA: I feel it in my veins, something changing in me,
all that I have learned, it’s making changes in me.
I’ve been this way too long, how could I not see?
My charity, kindness, all my help,
and this is what it brought me?

Take an eye for an eye, turn your heart into stone!
A tooth for a tooth, else you’ll end up alone!
They’ll take it all, they'll give you squat,
they’ll crush you to the floor,
kill your sons and daughters,
taking more and more.
The world is cold and dark as Captain Scalbi taught me well.
No more regrets, no wistful sighs,
now that I am taking…
eyes for eyes!

[CATALINA goes to work on her newest PATIENT, healing one of his eyes before extracting the other. The PATIENT screams and writhes on the operating table.]

CATALINA (spoken): A pleasure doing business with you.”

– From the script of the musical THE DOCTOR AND THE CAPTAIN, based on a true story

“Talk to me about your mother – about Catalina Nadasy.”

“I was the first my mother made, but far from the last. As many will know, she obsessively strove to recreate the Lucien Nadasy she lost. I never met him – I often wished I had, as a child. I thought that if I just met the original Lucien I’d know how to become him, how to make her happy. And since I never met him, I could never gauge how successful she’d been. She mostly seemed dissatisfied – or so I thought, because she kept going until there were ten of us.

By the end, though, she seemed to have gained some peace. I think Ian becoming a pirate helped, strangely. She didn’t speak about the original Lucien that much. I once asked my sister, Orsoyla, if she was disappointed she never got him back in his entirety. I’ve never forgotten what she told me. She was of the opinion that Catalina had gotten Lucien back in his entirety – just broken up and scattered into ten different people. Together, between us, we were Lucien. I remember that made me so happy.”

– Excerpt of a Signal interview with Luke Nadasy

“Catalina Nadasy – despite her rather shadowy reputation and association with certain so-called dentists – was truly vital to the progress of Esharian medicine. It was through her experimentation that we discovered the ability of hawks and other birds to see magic, and by extension, create the magical scanners so commonplace today. It is even said that she implanted hawk’s eyes into herself – which is why portraits of her can be considered unsettling!”

– A statement from Dr Narciso Somma issued on the 100th anniversary of the death of Dr Catalina Nadasy