Given the birth name "Zlato" (meaning "treasure"), Koudelka's life has been fraught with hardship.  Cast out of her Gypsy village at the age of nine due to her psychic powers, she's lived life as a nomad, supporting herself through finding lost articles for others, using her psychic abilities to serve as a medium, and reluctantly prostituting herself for warmth and money.  Now nineteen, Koudelka is bitter, jaded, sardonic, and self-loathing, but has a good heart buried beneath the cynicism.