Gila

Head of a reclamation dock for abandoned lighter ships in Borosevo on Emesh.

—Her employees, SKAG and BOR, starship mechanics.

She was as ugly as I remembered, her balding head scabbed and covered in uneven patches of black-and-gray hair, her squashed face purpled by a wine stain across her nose and one cheek. She was as plebeian as they came, her jumpsuit soiled, the green patches of the Mataro County service peeling from its shoulders.

Empire of Silence, Chapter 39: A Kingdom for a Horse