Willowy elven woman who stands stiffly like a reed in the wind. Her posture is precise, shoulders back, chin slightly raised. She moves with a taught economy of motion, as if she is always conserving time. Her hands are ink-stained at the fingertips and one fingernail is permanently cracked from long use of a quill. Her desk-smock has a neat patch of soot near the hem where she once burned papers in a brazier and forgot to move them. Unexpectedly, a thin braided leather cord of children's beads is knotted into the inside of her left sleeve where she hides it from view.