Chastity Flame is an agent with an unnamed British Intelligence organization.
Monitor is her handler with that group; she is an older woman who always seemed too busy or harried to do anything with her hair. Flame guessed she was in her early 50s but admitted that she thought the same thing when they first met around ten years before. This in turn tells us that Flame is likely in her mid-30s.
To say that Flame's job was her life would be regrettably accurate. "Her line of work guaranteed that she had no friends to speak of anymore. No one knew her real name, no one even knew her favourite drink. Chastity lived in a building with corporate owners. Monitor took care of the bills - rent, discreet dry cleaning and regular hampers of food from Harrods whenever she was in town."
Flame's work for the department is really two-fold, as we find almost immediately when she is sent to 'investigate' a security leak. After enticing the target to get nigh onto intimate with her, she then pulls out a syringe, threatens to inject deadly toxin into his groin unless he talked, listened carefully to the truth he was only too willing to impart, and then stabbed him anyways. She made sure that 999 was called to assist, knowing it was already too late for him.
Flame is a gorgeous, sexy woman who has an inate talent for choosing the right personality to present to whomever she deals with. She "had been lucky to inherit her mother's intelligence if not her wit, as much as she had been blessed by her father's good looks. They were useful tools in her work". She "knew her curvy figure didn't appeal to everyone, but many seemed to think it promised luscious rewards. She was fit, if not skinny, and her olive skin and chestnut tresses radiated the glow that good health brings. Few could resist remarking on her amber eyes, a rare enough color, but years of training had made them even more expressive - when she chose to have them reveal anything."
Outside of work really did not exist much for Flame. She is decidedly a physical individual who craves frequent "contact" with men though she seldom allowed herself any repeat contact. "Work always left her with an itch" which she gratified as soon as she could and then moved on to the next assignment and/or lover.
At least until she meets the delicious and erudite Damien Michelet in the first recorded adventure and he will become a focal point of her life from then on, providing a considerable amount of distraction she will work hard to overcome. Considering how long it had been since she had had a serious relationship, though, namely never, her private life needed it. "The job was old hat. Damien was something new and interesting."
Good Lines:
- "People paid no attention to what they didn't think they saw."
- "No face recognition software would ever be able to identify a woman who didn't really exist."