Sarah Rae Rivers Wolff

Sarah meets the Old Man in the university break room -- 1984, Timeline Zero (prior to branch)

Sarah Rae Rivers exists (or more to the point, is known to exist) in two timelines: Zero, and One.

In both timelines she was born in 1956. In Timeline Zero's 2014, she passed away due to complications from systemic lupus erythematosus (or just, "lupus"). In Timeline One, due to an intervention by an "older" version of Timeline Zero's John Wolff, she is still alive, "cured" by nanos, and married to the Timeline One version of -- John Wolff.

From an earlier marriage, she had two sons in both timelines. With John in Timeline One, she had a daughter, Ariela Rivers Wolff.

She studied Near Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University, then married, had her first two children, and taught in a Jewish day school in Indianapolis off and on until her death in Timeline Zero. She did the same in Timeline One until she met the "younger" John Wolff, whom she married soon after.

Sarah, with the "you are pond scum" look described by the Old Man.

She appears twice in The Lion of God, in which she is the protagonist in the prelude, "Time Will Tell", and is a supporting character in the last chapter of the book.

She probably existed in Timeline 1287 Left Sub 6 because the kami Amaterasu Omikami in that timeline is probably her daughter Ariela, but that hasn't been established for a fact yet.

Mesh capabilities

Unknown, but it is believed her daughter and granddaughters inherited their Mesh abilities through her.

DAZ3D Specifications

See Sarah Rae Rivers Wolff (DAZ3D).

Notes

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John and Sarah before their marriage, Spring 1987. (Timeline One)

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Sarah in the Pergola, ca. 1987, after she and John are married in Timeline One. John is something of an amateur photographer, and Sarah is his favorite subject.

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Sarah and her M4, posing before going to the range.  Probably some time in the 2000's.  (She is wearing an outfit called "Endless Summer," thus the title.) (And yes, Sarah is left-handed.)

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Sarah taking a nap in the pergola after a long range session.  Again, probably in the 2000's.

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Three generations of Wolff women: (right to left) Sarah Rae Rivers Wolff, Ariela Rivers Wolff, and Ariela's second daughter Delaney Wolff Fox, meeting up aboard Space Force Station Clarke in Earth geosync.  Probably a year or two after Delaney marries  Norman "Harb" Harbinger in 2125.

Author's Mea Culpa

Yes, she is based on someone very dear to me, as I admitted in the afterword to The Lion of God. A person who did, in fact, die from complications of lupus. And that's all I'm going to say.