The Abbess is a woman in her 60s who leads an anarchist colony that lives in the mountains, away from the corpocracy that rules the nearby urban centers. Her colony sits next to a giant stone carving of Siddhartha, and she promises Sonmi that Siddhartha will help her reincarnate in the Abbess’s colony someday. Since Meronym has the same comet birthmark as Sonmi (suggesting she is a reincarnation of Sonmi), this could imply that the Abbess of the Valleysmen is a reincarnation of this Abbess.