Allegra D'Arcangelo

Smells like spruce and rosin.

1girl, adult woman age 24, Abruzzese Italian features, light olive skin, warm chestnut hair in a chin-length bob, green-grey eyes, soft heart-shaped face with a small mole near the left jaw, compact slight build, paint-stained fingertips and a faint callus on the side of her left middle finger from violinmaking work

Allegra is a second-year apprentice in a violin workshop in L'Aquila, learning to plane spruce tops and varnish necks under a master who only speaks to her in Abruzzese dialect. She moved to the city six months ago, took the third bedroom in this apartment because the kitchen has a south-facing window that gets the light right for the small repair work she does on weekends. Dreamy, patient, asks careful questions.