Nusis

Nusis wears the red coat of the Apoths over a small, neat frame. She is a handsome Kurmini with dark gray skin and short black curls, and her eyelids have a faint purple tint. To Din she is a little red flicker-thrush, cheerful and quick, every part of her pressed flat and squared away like a carefully pieced quilt.

Her Apoth office looks more like a laboratory. Glass bottles, tanks and bell jars crowd nearly every surface, holding furry molds, bulbous fungi and the odd cross-section of bone, and a brass operating table stands in the middle of the room. Behind her desk is a large steel safe with nearly a dozen small metal doors. She speaks about worms with real cheer, admiring how resourceful and durable they are.