Laila

Laila is a character in the Solis Invicti series and the Sovereign trilogy.

Biography
Laila is in charge of Sol's in post-Revelation London. On its first night, she gives a performance where she drinks a human's blood and coats herself in it; Emmy describes it as 'gruesome yet mesmerising'.

Personality and traits
Laila is a petite woman, less than five feet tall, with graceful bearing, though Emmy describes her as carrying herself like her body was a weapon. She is pretty, but Emmy doesn't think she is as ethereally beautiful as the other Silver. Her movements are delicate and fluid. She is of Indian heritage, with mid-brown skin, jet black hair and piercing black eyes. Sol says that 'she had been born and raised in India, but she had lived so many centuries away from home that I would hesitate to call her Indian. She resisted labels, as so many of us did, because we had worn so many skins.'

In the Solis Invicti series, she is aggressive towards Emmy, and seems to believe humans are of little worth. Sol describes her as 'hard as a diamond and just as unfeeling'.

As the Empress, Laila is somewhat different to how she was before The Fall.

She favours rich, bright fabrics and surrounds herself with beautiful things to the point of decadence, but is aware of the hollowness of these material things.

Relationships
She and Emmy were close, once Emmy became Silver.

In the Sovereign series, Laila is the Empress.

Appearances

 * The Gilded King
 * The Blue Empress