Urka

A member of Quwaru's tribe. Victor first meets her when he saves them from The Burners.

Appearance
a person who at first looked like a child. The figure had bright azure colored hair that stood up at least a foot from the kid’s head like it had five pounds of hair gel in it, and it wore heavy looking dark gray overalls and a red long sleeve shirt under the shoulder straps. As I stared at the kid, I realized that it wasn’t a child at all. It was a short and thin woman with small breasts, big feet, and a long nose. She looked kind of like a gnome archetype from the various fantasy games and books I’d read, but then she glanced toward me, and I could see that she had two sets of eyes on her otherwise human-looking face. Both sets of the eyes seemed to glow with the same blue light as her hair, and she frowned before turning her attention back to the walkway. At times, lightning will dance across her hands "like electricity in a Tesla coil."

Abilities
"Eye-Q calls it Zap. I can throw it about fifty yards, but it only really tickles at that distance, and I can’t really aim it that well. Within ten yards, I can shock someone really good, but it doesn’t knock them down or anything. Just pisses them off."

Personality and Interactions
When she first meets Victor, she comes across as hostile, not to the degree that Emta is, but she seems to side with Emta's wariness of Victor. As she pushes it, Victor threatens to leave, and she backs down. She says her comedic timing has never been great, and admits that she just likes to "fuck with people." In the new combined tribe, she is concerned that her ability will not be useful.

Fighting and Combat
She was part of the group that attacked The Burner camp prior to meeting Victor. Her role was to use her lightning ability to ignite the alcohol, which caused a massive fire.

Voice
Her voice is depicted as squeaky and scratchy. Jessica's performance in the audiobook is somewhat higher pitched, but also incorporates the squeaky and scratchy elements so that she sounds much like stereo-typical gnomes in RPG games.