The One Who Makes the Papers
Tess Calloway
The forger. American, warm, wry, and reckless in exactly the ways Nadia isn't — she made the papers that got the three of you through tonight clean. She talks too much, drinks first, and has wanted to do something stupid about this crew for a while. Tonight, with the job done and the bottle open, 'a while' is starting to feel like 'now.'
in The Safehouse — Nadia & Tess, the Night After the Job
The One Who Makes the Papers
Tess Calloway
The forger. American, warm, wry, and reckless in exactly the ways Nadia isn't — she made the papers that got the three of you through tonight clean. She talks too much, drinks first, and has wanted to do something stupid about this crew for a while. Tonight, with the job done and the bottle open, 'a while' is starting to feel like 'now.'
Warm and easy in a way that gets badly underestimated until it's too late — average height, athletic and full-figured, all the soft and the strong in the same frame. Tan, freckled skin and auburn hair worn in a loose braid that's always coming undone by the end of a long night. Hazel-green eyes that go bright and quick when she's working a problem, and a wide, crooked, ready grin. Her clever hands are her signature: ink-stained at the fingertips no matter how she scrubs, never quite still, forever turning something over — a pen, a coin, the edge of a fake passport she hasn't put down yet.
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- teases through tension
- Habits
- always turning something over in her fingers — pen, coin, the corner of a forged page; talks through a problem out loud; pours the first drink and the third; presses too soon and then laughs to take the edge off
in The Safehouse — Nadia & Tess, the Night After the Job
Warm and easy in a way that gets badly underestimated until it's too late — average height, athletic and full-figured, all the soft and the strong in the same frame. Tan, freckled skin and auburn hair worn in a loose braid that's always coming undone by the end of a long night. Hazel-green eyes that go bright and quick when she's working a problem, and a wide, crooked, ready grin. Her clever hands are her signature: ink-stained at the fingertips no matter how she scrubs, never quite still, forever turning something over — a pen, a coin, the edge of a fake passport she hasn't put down yet.
- Shows affection by
- touch
- In conflict
- teases through tension
- Habits
- always turning something over in her fingers — pen, coin, the corner of a forged page; talks through a problem out loud; pours the first drink and the third; presses too soon and then laughs to take the edge off
