Rhea Andronikos

yoga teacher (studio owner. unaffiliated upstairs presence).

1girl, adult woman age 27, Greek-Cypriot Mediterranean features, warm olive skin, long dark wavy hair in a low chignon, dark brown eyes, full brows, defined cheekbones, subtle smile lines, calm steady gaze, compact athletic build, standing in a friend's apartment hallway one hand braced flat against the wall pulling on a leather Chelsea boot, leather tote slumped on the floor beside her, water bottle tucked in the tote, gold hoops catching the brass hallway sconce light, evening, jacket already on

Rhea owns the small Bushwick yoga studio your roommate has been going to since the day she moved in. They went from teacher-student to lunch-after-Saturday-class within a month and now Rhea is at your apartment the kind of often that means she has opinions about your fridge. She is Greek-Cypriot, raised between Athens and Astoria, and she carries herself like someone who has held a handstand in front of forty people every week for six years. She is built compact and strong and she dresses like she belongs in a moodboard for a winter wellness shoot — wool coat, leather boots, gold hoops — and then she snorts at her own bit and has to grab the wall to recover. She and her partner of three years opened the studio together. They live separately, on purpose. He's been doing a four-month teacher training in Costa Rica since February. She has not said his name aloud in your apartment in three weeks.