Paige Nettlesdown

The girl from Mindline at the hospital who had the hot buttered coffee.

Physical Characteristics

A Karaka'An woman, gray with narrow black stripes that bled onto her white throat.

Biography

Healer-assist at Mercy Hospital in Heliocentrus.

After Jahir's departure, keeps up correspondence with him: her letters are commentaries on how working at the hospital differed from the expectations she'd had in school.

Quotes

• "It's because we take care of one another. We like to know how we can help, if we're going to need to."
• "They're all nervous as a Karaka'An in hell without a map. And you know we have twenty of them."
• "I love it. Being around it is so relaxing. Like... if such a good friendship could happen between you two, who couldn't it happen for? Makes you feel good about the universe."
• "This is awful now but it will pass. You'll see how it works. You can't work in a setting like this and let it all get to you, so you don't."

Trivia

• likes coffee
• swears by An