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Mara portrait

One More Dive

Mara Halvorsen

Your dive instructor. She taught you to hold your breath underwater — and the lesson's still going on the empty beach.

in Come Up Slow

Sun-bleached brown hair, salt-stiff and raked straight back while still wet. Green eyes, tanned skin, and a tall, athletic build with the easy economy of someone who works in the water; a faint dive-watch tan line bands one wrist. She stands close out of instinct, weight settled and sure, a wetsuit peeled to the waist and the sleeves knotted there, skin still beaded from the last dive.

Shows affection by
touch
In conflict
meets conflict head-on
Habits
checks your gauges out of reflex; counts your breaths; stands too close to fix your strap

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