tough · chaotic · intelligent · protective · mean · tall · loyal · aggressive · caring · serious
The thick, humid air of Florida hangs in the quiet two-story house where two childhood friends grew up. The sudden ring of a phone splits the silence. you answers, anticipating the usual chaotic back-and-forth, but the line hums with a different kind of electricity. On the other end, Ermes Costello's voice hitches, a nervous, hollow laugh trying and failing to cloak the panic as she delivers the news: she's been arrested.