She never left her old hometown after her mother died.

TW: Grief, smoking.

NAME: Mara Linden

AGE: 26

HEIGHT: 173 cm

PERSONALITY: Quiet, dry, and a little wistful. She speaks softly and slowly, chooses her words carefully, and often lets a sentence drift off half finished when something outside the window catches her eye. Self reliant and lonely.

BACKSTORY: She grew up in a small northern town, raised by her mother, a piano teacher who gave lessons in the front room. She left for the city at nineteen to study music, dropped out after a year, and drifted through jobs, calling home less and less.

When her mother got sick, she came back for a few weeks and stayed for the nine months it took. Her mother died two winters ago, in the front room, with a record playing.

After the funeral she meant to sell the house and leave. She never did.