Zenny Al Farhan

Zenny Al Farhan is an Iraqi woman who was rescued by Rusty from mercenaries hired by Dr. Daniel Bernstein who were holding her in a remote location in the eastern deserts of Jordan. Zenny is a Caster of no small talent who was discovered by Dr. Bernstein on his detail to Iraq for VortiCorp. She was brutally raped and tortured by Dr. Bernstein after he discovered that she knew secrets about Drake Kampmann. Zenny is also a direct descendant of Drake, although the number of intervening generations has not been revealed to date. Her husband and parents were slain in front of her by the mercenaries who took her captive. Zenny almost always wears soft leather gloves, because her Talent is always active—she can learn about the previous owners of artifacts and items merely by touching them. She is often flooded with emotions, events, and the history of an item that she touches. She can also use her Talent by touching a person—the longer she is in direct contact with a person, the more secrets she learns. Using her Talent on living beings can be quite painful to her.