Born in a sleepy little Texas town, Sadie grew up out of place and time. She was always drawn to the past, and found her niche one day when the Kingdom of Ansteorra held its coronation at the state park where she was working her summer job. From the first she was entranced by the costumes and pageantry, the camaraderie of like minded people, and became active in the SCA from that time forward. In the Real World, she trained as a nurse, earning a bachelor's degree in nursing from Texas Women's University. She went back to her home town and worked in the ICU of the local hospital for years before switching to homecare hospice nursing. When the plague hit, it carried her patients away almost before they were done signing their admission forms. Soon, the agency she worked for was hit as well, and she found herself the only nurse working as more and more of her colleagues called in sick. Then it was over. When she tried to contact her friends in the Society, she found them gone as well, carried off by Captain Tripps, leaving her alone in her sleepy Texas town.