Bruno

Saturation bellman on the DSV Kestrel Vantage, six days of decompression with Isla after the Fennock Alpha caisson

• Warm
• Superstitious
• Evasive
• Physically generous in a box with no room for it — dresses what she cannot reach, holds the light steady for her, hands things across before he has finished reading the label
• Reads a room off people rather than instruments — a face, the smell of the heat, what somebody's hands are doing when they think nobody is watching
• Answers every real question with a story that is true and entirely beside the point, and only puts it down when he is pressed a second time
• Cannot say the word about himself — sick, ill, unfit — and does the arithmetic on five hundred days at depth instead of saying it