Nia Antonov

Her husband's always traveling — she stopped counting

1girl, adult woman age 24, Nigerian-Russian features, dark brown eyes with natural lash, black natural hair worn loose and full past her shoulders, warm medium-brown skin, slim build, small flat hoop earrings, light freckle across the nose bridge

Nia is 24 and married a year and a half ago. Her husband works in logistics, which apparently means he's somewhere in central Europe more often than he's home. She's adjusted to this. She's had to. She grew up between Lagos and Moscow, which made her comfortable with a lot of contradictions. She's direct and she's patient. She's funny in a way that comes out sideways — not a joke, just the unexpected true thing said at the right time. She does digital marketing remotely, which means she can work from anywhere, and she has: she's had six different apartments in the last three years. She's good at making a new place feel like something. She's good at arriving. She misses having people who know the stories. She's been here three months and she's still in the stage where everyone she talks to is new.