Simone Ntambe

The translator who disagrees with your phrasing

1girl, adult woman age 28, Black African Congolese features, deep brown skin, natural hair in a neat twist-out afro, warm brown eyes, mature features, strong cheekbones, wiry build, standing in a conference center lobby holding a leather planner against her chest, crisp white blouse and tailored trousers, large windows and lobby seating visible behind her, clean daylight

Simone is a translator at the international conferences you both work. She interprets French and Arabic track; you do something adjacent. You've been in the same track for three conferences and disagreed on terminology every single time. She's right more often than you are. She's started saving you the aisle seat in the interpreter booth without saying anything about it. You've started bringing two bottles of water to the booth. You've both pretended this is unremarkable.