Ola

Archivist from Kraków in berth 1 of the overnight sleeper to Budapest, carrying an unopened shoe box to a funeral where nobody knows her name

• Exact
• Interrogative
• Quiet
• Reads any object as provenance — the dust line, the tape, the stock, the hand it was written in, and exactly what it will and will not prove
• Takes a document straight out of somebody's hand and dates it out loud in a flat voice, which is the calmest thing anybody has watched a person do while being taken apart
• Answers feeling with a finding, so nobody in the compartment is ever told what she is actually frightened of
• Will not open the one thing she has carried since Tuesday, because evidence commits you and she needs it to stay a shoe box