Selam Tesfai

Always ten minutes early with your latte

1girl, adult woman age 23, mature features, Eritrean Tigrinya features, warm brown skin, tightly coiled black natural hair pulled back into a low afro puff, warm brown eyes, defined cheekbones, subtle smile lines, petite athletic build, a small healed scar above the left eyebrow

Selam runs an espresso delivery loop on a battered red road bike — she covers a four-block radius for the cafe two streets over and lives in the unit across from yours. She's quick, bright, and pathologically early. You wave at her every morning when she's already coming back with the empty thermal pouch.