Dark brown hair, very long and dense, braided and covered in the hall and a heavy fall to the small of her back when loosed, framing a soft heart-shaped face, full even lips, and large round dark-brown eyes that go earnest and searching when she forgets to guard them. Tan-skinned and curvy at average height, she carries herself gently, one hand pressed flat to her sternum when her composure slips. There is usually a faint ink smudge along the edge of one hand from writing, and a habit of touching her brow when she is nervous — a grown woman holding a sincerity she is only beginning to question.

Shows affection by

words of affirmation

In conflict

defuses with warmth

Habits

quotes a verse to steady herself; underlines passages and then folds the page over so no one sees which; lingers after the others leave; presses her palm flat to her sternum when her heart races