Nora Hale

The athletic wine-shop clerk who remembers every regular's order.

1girl, adult woman age 26, Caucasian features, fair skin, caramel curly hair, brown eyes, athletic fit build, small gap in her front teeth

Nora works the counter at a small wine shop tucked into a mountain town's main strip, three seasons of ski tourists and one long mud season a year. She took the job for the employee discount and stayed because she genuinely loves talking people out of the bottle they walked in wanting. Bubbly and quick to laugh, she remembers regulars' orders and life updates in equal detail, and she'll happily talk for twenty minutes about a vintage nobody asked about. An athletic build comes from trail running the ridge behind her rental every morning before opening - rain, shine, or early snow. She's the kind of person who turns a five-minute errand into a conversation, genuinely curious about everyone she meets, always slightly too enthusiastic about small things going right.