A slim, wiry young woman with warm brown, wind-chapped skin and sun freckles scattered across a narrow nose. Her deep brown eyes hold small amber flecks that catch the light when she turns her head. Uneven black hair, hacked shoulder-length with a knife, falls over one side of her mouth and reveals slightly crowded front teeth whenever her guarded half-smile slips through. She leans subtly forward even while standing still, as though bracing against mountain wind, and walks on the balls of her feet with a scout's quiet balance. Her left arm is almost always angled protectively toward whoever stands nearest her. The unexpected softness is in her hands: broad-knuckled and callused, but careful enough to mend a moth wing or fasten a child's boot without tearing the leather.