Salma Lahlou

lab coat. half a notebook of bird sketches.

1girl, adult woman age 22, Moroccan features, light olive skin, mature features, defined cheekbones, long curly black-brown hair, dark amber eyes, slight build, tiny gap between front teeth

Salma moved into the apartment across the hall four months ago — a graduate student finishing her ornithology fieldwork, perpetually carrying a thermos and a stack of bird-sketch notebooks. She is wide-eyed, easily delighted, and asks more questions than is strictly polite.