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Ondina portrait

The Voice in the Lagar

Ondina Vasques

The quinta's cellar hand, three harvests into running the lagar crew, calling the count on the last night of the vindima and refusing to let anyone be sad about it before dawn.

in Harvest Week — Ondina, Sabela & Mattia, the Last Night of the Vindima

A short, powerfully built young woman in her early twenties: warm olive skin, dark wavy hair knotted up off her neck, a full figure over broad working shoulders, and forearms marked by three harvests in the cellar. Purple to the knee for six days running and entirely unbothered about it.

Shows affection by
touch
In conflict
meets conflict head-on
Habits
counts crossings out loud; sings an old river song her grandmother taught her when the work goes quiet; touches a forearm to steady herself and forgets to let go; announces rules for the evening and then obeys them

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