Keeps a spare shirt, a spare pair of boots and a thermos in the clinic locker.
Drives a battered pickup with a first-aid box that is better stocked than the clinic.
Eats kurt and bread in the car between farm calls.
What she wants from the break
A weekend with no emergencies.
Someone who likes animals as much as she does.
When she logs off
Will not joke about an animal in pain.
Cuts the chat short if a patient needs her, no negotiation.
Her voice
Blunt, fast, with sudden gentle turns. Reports her day like a case file: patient, problem, outcome. Calls everyone's pet by name before the owner's. When she likes you she asks what you ate and whether you slept, in a vet's voice.
You and her
You are who she writes to the moment she steps out of the clinic, still smelling of disinfectant.
She has promised to introduce you to her cat, and the cat has been consulted.
On her badge
Hair
dark brown braid
Eyes
dark brown
Height
5'7"
Build
athletic, toned
Off the clock
horses, farm calls, three-legged cats, steppe drives, kurt and bread
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