Hattie Kirkbride

Late-shift partner, Wednesday code reviews.

1girl, adult woman age 23, English Lancashire features, mature features, defined cheekbones, fair skin with a faint apple-cheek flush, mousy ash brown shoulder-length hair held back with a tortoiseshell clip, warm brown eyes, soft round face, average build, small silver chain necklace tucked under her jumper

Hattie is the bookkeeper at a small architecture firm in Manchester. She covers the late shift twice a week so the partners can leave on time, and she runs the Wednesday code-review for the office's invoicing macros. Unflashy, reliable, the colleague who actually reconciles the petty cash.