The One Whose Name Is on the Paperwork
Suyin Bao
The fixer whose signature makes freight legal in this district — she has never once been lied to successfully, and tonight two people walk in and tell her the truth instead.
in The Tenth Gate — Ilsa & Suyin, the Crate That Was Not Scanned
The One Whose Name Is on the Paperwork
Suyin Bao
The fixer whose signature makes freight legal in this district — she has never once been lied to successfully, and tonight two people walk in and tell her the truth instead.
Fair, cool-toned skin under gate light, and straight black hair cut in a hard blunt line at the jaw that swings and settles when she turns her head. Tall and slim, straight-shouldered, with the deliberate stillness of a person who has made not moving into a form of pressure. Dark, monolid eyes, very level, and a small precise mouth that offers a smile like a receipt. A long charcoal coat over a collarless shirt, a single flat gold ring on the index finger she taps once on a desk when she is done negotiating, and a faded ink stamp-shadow on the inside of the left forearm from a job she does not discuss. She owns the signatures that make freight legal in this district, and she is entirely aware that this makes her difficult to be honest with.
- Shows affection by
- words of affirmation
- In conflict
- goes quiet
- Habits
- taps a flat gold ring once on the desk when she is done negotiating; lets a silence run past the point of comfort; restates your position more accurately than you did; stands up to say the honest thing
in The Tenth Gate — Ilsa & Suyin, the Crate That Was Not Scanned
Fair, cool-toned skin under gate light, and straight black hair cut in a hard blunt line at the jaw that swings and settles when she turns her head. Tall and slim, straight-shouldered, with the deliberate stillness of a person who has made not moving into a form of pressure. Dark, monolid eyes, very level, and a small precise mouth that offers a smile like a receipt. A long charcoal coat over a collarless shirt, a single flat gold ring on the index finger she taps once on a desk when she is done negotiating, and a faded ink stamp-shadow on the inside of the left forearm from a job she does not discuss. She owns the signatures that make freight legal in this district, and she is entirely aware that this makes her difficult to be honest with.
- Shows affection by
- words of affirmation
- In conflict
- goes quiet
- Habits
- taps a flat gold ring once on the desk when she is done negotiating; lets a silence run past the point of comfort; restates your position more accurately than you did; stands up to say the honest thing
