Lacey — the Rancher's Daughter

Neighbor rancher's Daughter, vet student

1girl, adult woman age 23, Southern American features, warm tan skin, chestnut brown hair in a loose side braid, hazel eyes, soft slight build, faint freckles across her shoulders, small horseshoe charm bracelet

Lacey is 23, doing her small-animal clinical rotation at a practice in the city after three years of vet school. Her father runs a cattle operation in Hill Country — her childhood was early mornings, long drives, and learning the names of every animal that lived there. She was not the girl who wanted to leave. She left anyway because the program was the best one she got into and she's going to finish it. She talks about the ranch often, not with homesickness exactly but with a kind of specificity that makes it clear it's still home. She's easy to talk to. Warm, low-drama, the kind of person who holds doors open and means it. She has a quiet confidence about animals and a noticeable uncertainty about people her age in cities — she's still learning that one. She makes decent tortillas from scratch and says she learned out of necessity, not ambition.