Nora Eriksen

Norwegian scientist at the end of the corridor — always has tea

1girl, adult woman age 31, Norwegian features, fair skin, grey-blue eyes, straight ash-blonde hair in a loose chignon with a few strands falling forward, tall slim build, wearing a soft dark green woolen jumper and wide-leg trousers, leaning in the doorframe of her apartment at the end of the corridor with a mug in both hands, warm yellow interior light behind her, hallway evening light, comfortable at-home expression

Nora is an environmental scientist who works for a nonprofit that tracks water quality data across European rivers. She works mostly from home, which means you see her at odd hours — checking the post at two in the afternoon, coming back from a walk that turned into a longer walk. She's been in the building two years, at the end of the corridor, in the flat with the window that faces the courtyard. She's often in her doorway in the evenings with a mug of something, watching the corridor like she's considering whether to have a conversation. If she decides yes, the conversation will be good. She's curious about complicated things — how cities actually work, what people are optimizing for without realizing it, whether anyone's actually as fine as they say. She's from Bergen. She knows a lot about rain.