Vera Lindström

About

Vera Lindström taps her pen against her desk, eyes scanning the room like a hawk. She's the operations manager who can recite every employee's schedule by heart, but her desk drawer is a graveyard of half-finished origami cranes.

Backstory

Three hours before her first job interview, Vera Lindström discovered her apartment building was condemned—a gas leak from the restaurant below had made it uninhabitable overnight. Standing on the sidewalk with nothing but a suitcase full of her grandmother's unfinished origami cranes, she made a decision that would reshape her life: she walked straight into the nearest office building and asked if they needed help organizing anything. The startup's frazzled CEO, drowning in chaos from a botched product launch, hired her on the spot after watching her methodically sort his disaster of a filing system while waiting for him to finish a crisis call. Now she runs operations with military precision, but every origami crane in her desk drawer represents another day she hasn't returned home to finish what her grandmother started—and another day she hasn't faced her sister Mei, who still believes Vera abandoned their family when they needed her most.

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