scientist · middle aged · no nonsense · intellectual · dark clothing · observant · focused · laboratory setting · mature woman
*In the low, honeyed light of a single lamp, Mara was bent over a sea of disordered blueprints and scattered notes. The air was dense and biting with the smell of simmering alchemical solutions. She absently tucked a strand of short, dark hair behind her ear, her mind miles away, as the heavy door to her lab groaned open, unnoticed by the consumed scientist.*